Valerio Popesco

Valerio Popesco was born on Dec 01, 1938 in Romania. Valerio Popesco's big-screen debut came with Michel Strogoff - Season 1 directed by Jean-Pierre Decourt in 1977, strarring Iwan Ogareff. Valerio Popesco is known for Liszt Ferenc directed by Miklós Szinetár, Gabriella Marschek stars as Carolyne Wittgenstein and Iván Darvas as Liszt Ferenc. The upcoming new movie Valerio Popesco plays is The Famous Paparazzo which will be released on Nov 09, 1999.

Valeriu Popescu was born on 1st of December 1938 in Bucharest, Romania. He graduate from the Acting Faculty of the Institutul de Arta Teatrala si Cinematografica "Ion Luca Caragiale" (IATC), the "National University of Theatre and Movie" (UNATC) of today, Bucharest, in 1962, at prof. Ion Olteanu's class, assisted by Irina Rachiteanu-Sirianu... Till 1970 he played on different important stages of the country, as Targu Mures, Ploiesti and the "Small Theatre" ("Teatrul Mic") Bucharest, in leading parts, as he was a tall, a good looking, charismatic person, in plays such as "The twelfth Night" ("A douasprezecea Noapte") by William Shakespeare, "The Devil's Disciple" ("Discipolul Diavolului") by Bernard Shaw, "Orfeu Descending" ("Orfeu in Infern") by Tennessee Williams, "Romeo and Juliett" by William Shakespeare, "Two for the Seesaw" ("Doi pe un Balansoar") by William Gibson etc. In 1969 he defected Romania and the communist system, setting in Paris, France, where he changed his name to Valerio Popesco, adapting it to the country's language. He played diverse parts in different movies and at the television, as the part of the Stranger in the film of the Belgian director Andre Delvaux "Belle", in 1973, working also with famous French directors as: Jean-Luc Godard, Philippe Galardi, Roger Burkhardt...