Elvira Popescu
Birthday
1894/05/10
Day of death
1993/12/11 (99 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Bucarest, Romania
Also know as
Elvire Popesco
Biography
Elvira Popescu (10 May 1894 – 11 December 1993) was a Romanian-French stage and film actress and theatre director. During the 1930s and 1940s, she starred in a number of French comedy films. Born in Bucharest, Popescu studied drama at the Music and Drama Conservatory in her native city, under the guidance of Constantin Nottara and Aristizza Romanescu. In 1911 Grigore Brezeanu was making the first Romanian films to deal with fiction. He employed Popesco as well as other leading actors like Notta...Read more
Acting
Clouzot : The Early Works
as ---
(1939) Nine Bachelors
as Countess Stacia Batchefskaïa
(1939) Four Flights to Love
as Sonia Vorochine
(1960) The Battle of Austerlitz
as Lætitia Bonaparte
(1934) Une femme chipée
as Hélène Larsonnier
(1935) Dora Nelson
as Dora Nelson / Suzanne Verdier
(1936) L'Amant de Madame Vidal
as ---
(1937) Le Club des Aristocrates
as La comtesse Irène Waldapowska
(1938) La Présidente
as Vérotcha
(1938) Bargekeepers Daughter
as The Queen of Silistrie
(1939) Deputy Eusèbe
as Mariska
(1941) Parade in 7 Nights
as Madame Fanny
(1942) The Blue Veil
as Mona Lorenza
(1942) Frédérica
as Frédérica
(1941) Le valet maître
as ---
(1943) Fou d'amour
as Arabella
(1942) L'âge d'or
as ---
(1939) Behind the Facade
as Mrs. Rameau, wife of an industrialist and mistress of Alfredo
(1940) The Mondesir Heir
as Erika, l'aventurière
(1932) Sa meilleure cliente
as Edwige
(1923) Tigancusa de la iatac
as Maria Tortusanu - Vasil's fiancée
(1938) Tricoche and Cacolet
as Bernardine Van der Pouf
(1939) Sacred Woods
as Francine Margerie
(1936) The King
as Thérèse Marnix
(1937) The Green Dress
as La duchesse de Maulévrier
(1960) Purple Noon
as Mrs. Popova
(1938) Mon curé chez les riches
as Lisette Cousinet
(1937) The House Across the Street
as Madame Anna
(1966) La Mamma
as Rosaria
(1939) The Fatted Calf
as Princess Dorothée
(1972) La voyante
as Karma, la voyante
(1937) The Man of the Day
as Mona Thalia
(1931) My Cousin From Warsaw
as Sonia Varilovna
(1931) The stranger
as Dora Clarkson
(1942) Mademoiselle Swing
as Sofia de Vinci
(1937) In Venice, One Night
as Nadia Mortal
(1975) Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
(1956) En direct de...
as self