Constantin Codrescu (; 5 September 1931 – 13 November 2022) was a Romanian actor.
He appeared in more than thirty films since 1953.
Born in
Huși
Huși (, Yiddish/ he, חוש ''Khush'', hu, Huszváros, German: ''Hussburg'') is a city in Vaslui County, Romania, former capital of the disbanded Fălciu County in the historical region of Western Moldavia, Romanian Orthodox episcopal see, ...
, he was raised in
northern Bukovina
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, but had to move to
Bucharest
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after the region was
annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940.
In the early 1950s he was married to actress
Valeria Gagialov, but some strange circumstances involving his mother (who tried to poison his wife) led to divorce. Afterwards he was married for five years to actress Margareta-Yvonne Butuc (later known as
Marga Barbu
Margareta-Yvonne Barbu also known as Marga Barbu born ''Margareta-Yvonne Butuc'' (24 February 1929 – 31 March 2009) was a Romanian actress.
She was born in 1929 in Ocna Șugatag, Maramureș County, and moved to Bucharest at age 14. In 1950 sh ...
); after divorcing her in 1959, he married Adina Georgescu in 1963, but this marriage also did not last long. In 1972 he found employment at the Hungarian Theatre in
Târgu Mureș
Târgu Mureș (, ; hu, Marosvásárhely ) is the seat of Mureș County in the historical region of Transylvania, Romania. It is the 16th largest Romanian city, with 134,290 inhabitants as of the 2011 census. It lies on the Mureș River, th ...
, where he met and later married actress Ildiko Codrescu.
Codrescu died on 13 November 2022, at the age of 91.
Selected filmography
References
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1931 births
2022 deaths
People from Huși
Romanian male film actors
Caragiale Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography alumni
Recipients of the Order of Cultural Merit (Romania)
Knights of the Order of the Star of Romania
20th-century Romanian male actors
21st-century Romanian male actors
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