Name
Mrs Oana Rusu
Country of residence
Romania
Ethnicity
Roma
Occupation
actress
BIO
She graduated from the University of Theater Arts of Târgu Mureș, with a degree in Acting. She made her debut at the State Theater in Oradea, and since 2008 she has been an actress at the National Opera and Musical Theater “Ion Dacian” in Bucharest. Throughout her career she has collaborated with renowned directors. In 2011 she received a prize for the promotion of Roma culture at the Gala of Excellence of the Roma; in 2012 she won a prize for the best “music-hall” actress at the Roma Women’s Gala, and in 2019 she received a Distinguished Appreciation Award from the Government of Romania at the ceremony “Past, present, future” for her artistic performance and the promotion of Roma culture. Currently, she is both an actress and a lead singer of the “Ion Dacian” National Operetta Theater and Musical in Bucharest. In parallel, she participates in independent theater projects, including Giuvlipen Roma Feminist Theatre for which she in an actress and a theatre trainer in the Roma communities.