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Romanian actress From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Margareta-Caliopi Pogonat (6 March 1933 – 11 May 2014) was a Romanian theatre and film actress.[1]
Margareta Pogonat | |
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| Born | March 6, 1933 |
| Died | May 11, 2014 (aged 81) Bucharest, Romania |
| Resting place | Iancu Nou Cemetery, Bucharest |
| Alma mater | I. L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film |
| Occupation(s) | Film and theater actress |
| Years active | 1957–2009 |
| Employer | Spiru Haret University |
She was born in Iași. Her father, Alexandru Pogonat, was a journalist and poet who died in 1941 on the Eastern Front; her grandfather, Petru Pogonat, was a jurist who served as mayor of Iași in 1921.[2] Margareta Pogonat studied at the I.L. Caragiale Institute of Theatre and Film Arts (IATC) in Bucharest, graduating in 1959.[1] She made her debut as a student in 1957 with the movie Pasărea furtunii,[3] and then acted at the Mihai Eminescu Theatre in Botoșani, the Iași National Theatre, and the Toma Caragiu Theatre in Ploiești.[4][5] From 1974 to 1998 she played at the Nottara Theatre in Bucharest.
In 1990, she became a professor at Spiru Haret University, where she taught acting for 12 years.[5] In 2009 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Romanian Association of Theatre Artists.[4] She died of cancer in Bucharest, at age 81,[1] and was buried in the city's Iancu Nou Cemetery.[6]
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