| Claudiu Bleonţ | |
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Claudiu Bleonţ |
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| Born | August 17, 1959 Bucharest |
Claudiu Bleonţ (Romanian pronunciation: [klaˈudju ˈble̯ont͡s]; born August 17, 1959, in Bucharest) is a Romanian film and theatre actor. He is known in Romania not only by his acting ability, but also for his improvisational talent.
Bleonţ went to a German high school in Bucharest, attended the National Bucharest Film Academy. Since then, he has played lead roles at many theatres in Romania, often preferring more classical productions. However, one of his most well-known theatre performances is as Romeo in a production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet with the balcony scene replaced with a bathtub. He has received several national awards for his theatre work.
He has since appeared in seventeen films, under many of the premier Romanian directors. He had a lead role in the film Un été inoubliable under the direction of Lucian Pintilie; the film was nominated for the Golden Palm at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.
He married Beatrice Bleonţ, a stage director, in 1995; they have since divorced and since 2001 he has been married to Andra Negulescu, young actress. In the 2003 film Boudica, Bleonţ played the role of Suetonius' ADC.
In 2005 he acted in Femeia visurilor, a Romanian film directed by Dan Piţa.
He recently appeared in Eva which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010.