Daniela Nane

She was born on 29 November 1971 in Iași, Romania. In 1994, she attended a masterclass at the European League of Institutes of the Arts. Later, in 2011, she participated in a training course in "Japanese Culture and Civilization and Japanese Theater" at Osaka University through the UNESCO Chair.^[1][2]

Nane stepped into the spotlight in 1991, when she won the Miss Romania pageant and a year later, she became Romania's first participant in the Miss Universe beauty pageant held in Las Vegas.^[3][4] Afterward, from 1991 to 1995, she attended the Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film, where she studied with instructors like Mircea Albulescu, Cătălin Naum, and Adrian Titieni.^[1][5]

Nane is also an artistic director of the Musical Theater Ambasadorii.^[1] She has starred in more than 50 theatrical plays, feature films, and television shows during her career. In 2021, she debuted as a director with a comedy play on Broadway, filmed in Vâlcea.^[5]

Until 2002, Nane was married to a businessman Viorel Popa with whom she had a child, Codrin. After her divorce, she was in a relationship with the director Andrei Zincă for some time.^[6] Later in 2016, she married Adrian Cioroianu, the former minister of foreign affairs.^[5][7][2][8]

Nane won two best actress awards for her debut in Patul lui Procust, directed by Cătălina Buzoianu.^[5]