Marcel Iureș (Romanian pronunciation:[marˈt͡ʃelˈjureʃ]ⓘ; born 2 August 1951) is a Romanian actor.[1] He is one of Romania's most acclaimed stage and film actors.[2] He has acted in films and on stage both in Romania and internationally, and has played at least ten roles on Romanian and British television. His work includes voiceovers for Disney and computer games.[1] Iureș is the president and a judge of the Anonimul International Film Festival and also the president of Ideo Ideis Festival (an annual national theatre festival for teenagers).[1]
He made his stage debut at the Bulandra Theatre, in Bucharest, in the 1975 production of Ferma, playing George. From 1978 to 1981 he acted at the National Theatre, Cluj, in numerous roles such as Beckman in the play Afară în fața ușii and The Coryphaeus in The Persians by Aeschylus[1] During the early 1980s, Iureș appeared at both the Bulandra and Odeon Theatres in Bucharest. Among his roles were the title roles in Shakespeare's were Hamlet, Henry IV, and Richard III, but also Richard II.[1]
He is the president of Teatrul ACT[3] (the first independent theatre in Romania[4]) of which he was one of the founders in 1995.[4] Iureș has starred there in various roles, including the title roles of Shakespeare's Richard II, Richard III (directed by Mihai Măniuțiu), and Hamlet (directed by Liviu Ciulei). He has also appeared in Fundația Teatrul ACT-staged shows such as Creatorul de Teatru (The Creator of the Theatre, directed by Alexandru Dabija), Cetatea Soarelui (Citadel of the Sun, directed by Mihai Măniuţiu), and Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape.[1] Iureș also continues to perform with the Bulandra Theatre, for whom he played the lead in a 2005 production of Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV.[5]
Iureș made his film debut portraying Franz Liszt in the 1978 Romanian film Vis de ianuarie [ro] (January Dream). From the early 1980s and into the 1990s, he continued to build a screen career, appearing in many minor and major roles in Romania.[1]
