I wasn't born into acting. I was born into discipline.

Growing up in Romania, I excelled at everything I put my mind to, so I studied law in Bucharest, got an LLM at Humboldt University in Berlin, and did what made sense on paper. What didn't make sense was how little of it felt like me.

Berlin changed that. There's something about this city — nobody cares who you were before, nobody needs you to be anything in particular. During Covid I stayed, alone, in the quiet of a place that was still new to me. That discomfort turned out to be the most honest thing I'd ever experienced. I stopped performing the life I was supposed to want and started asking what I actually wanted.

The answer was acting. It was more like finally breathing. I was always drawn to the arts, but I never allowed myself to explore that — and the society in which I grew up didn't encourage that exploration either. Through acting I get to be endlessly curious: to live inside different lives, different languages, different truths and then share that with an audience.

I work in German, English, and Romanian, and I think that lives in everything I do. I'm drawn to complexity, to characters who don't quite fit, to the space between who someone is and who they're pretending to be.

A lot of people have told me my story gave them the courage to make their own leap. I don't take that lightly. It's part of why the work matters to me beyond the work itself.

I'm based in Berlin. Constantly curious.