Elvira Popescu

Personal Info

Birthday

May 10, 1894

Day of Death

1993-12-11

(99 years old)

Place of Birth

Bucarest, Romania

Also Known As

Elvire Popesco

Elvira Popescu

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 Nottara and Romanescu.

Known For

Purple Noon

The Battle of Austerlitz

Four Flights to Love

Bargekeepers Daughter

The Fatted Calf

La voyante

Sacred Woods

The Blue Veil

Filmography

1972
La voyante
as Karma, la voyante
1966
La Mamma
as Rosaria
1960
The Battle of Austerlitz
as Lætitia Bonaparte
Purple Noon
as Mrs. Popova
1943
Fou d'amour
as Arabella
1942
The Blue Veil
as Mona Lorenza
Frédérica
as Frédérica
Mademoiselle Swing
as Sofia de Vinci
1941
Parade in 7 Nights
as Madame Fanny
1940
The Mondesir Heir
as Erika, l'aventurière
1939
Sacred Woods
as Francine Margerie
Four Flights to Love
as Sonia Vorochine
Nine Bachelors
as Countess Stacia Batchefskaïa
The Fatted Calf
as Princess Dorothée
Behind the Facade
as Mrs. Rameau, wife of an industrialist and mistress of Alfredo
Deputy Eusèbe
as Mariska
1938
Mon curé chez les riches
as Lisette Cousinet
Bargekeepers Daughter
as The Queen of Silistrie
Tricoche and Cacolet
as Bernardine Van der Pouf
La Présidente
as Vérotcha
1937
In Venice, One Night
as Nadia Mortal
The Green Dress
as La duchesse de Maulévrier
Le Club des Aristocrates
as La comtesse Irène Waldapowska
The House Across the Street
as Madame Anna
The Man of the Day
as Mona Thalia
1936
The King
as Thérèse Marnix
1935
Dora Nelson
as Dora Nelson / Suzanne Verdier
1934
Une femme chipée
as Hélène Larsonnier
1932
Sa meilleure cliente
as Edwige
1931
My Cousin From Warsaw
as Sonia Varilovna
The stranger
as Dora Clarkson
1923
Tigancusa de la iatac
as Maria Tortusanu - Vasil's fiancée