Dina Cocea

Dina Cocea (November 27, 1912 – October 28, 2008) was a well-known Romanian stage actress and occasional movie star with a career that spanned 50 years. Among other activities, Cocea was an actor in residence at Bucharest's National Theatre for 17 years, was a university professor, writer and columnist, playwright, political activist and representative to UNESCO. Cocea was born on November 27, 1912 in Bucharest to father N. D. Cocea, a well known writer and journalist, and mother Florica Mille, who was the daughter of another prominent journalist and writer, the socialist politico Constantin Mille, in whose house Cocea resided as a child. At 14 years of age, Cocea went to Paris, where she attended a Roman Catholic boarding school for a time. She later moved in with her aunt, Alice Cocéa, a film actress and star of the Parisian theatre, who introduced and encouraged Cocea to take up the acting profession. After completing an education in the dramatic arts in Paris, Cocea returned to Ro