Draga Olteanu Matei (née Olteanu) (; 24 October 1933 – 18 November 2020) was a Romanian actress. She performed in more than thirty films from 1967 to 2006. Born in

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

, she studied at the Iulia Hasdeu High School in

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. After moving to

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at age 17, she returned to Bucharest, where she graduated in 1956 from the I.L. Caragiale Institute of Theatre and Film Arts. In 1970 she married Ion Matei, a doctor from

Piatra Neamț Piatra Neamț (; german: Kreuzburg an der Bistrița (Siret), Bistritz; hu, Karácsonkő) is the capital city of Neamț County, in the historical region of Western Moldavia, in northeastern Romania. Because of its privileged location in the Easter ...

. Draga Olteanu Matei was awarded the

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, Knight rank in May 2002 and the

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, Officer rank in October 2014. She received a star on the Romanian Walk of Fame in

on 29 October 2011. She died in 2020 of

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at the in

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and was buried with military honors at the Eternitatea Cemetery in Piatra Neamț.

Selected filmography

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* 1933 births 2020 deaths Actresses from Bucharest 20th-century Romanian actresses 21st-century Romanian actresses Caragiale Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography alumni Knights of the Order of the Star of Romania Officers of the Order of the Crown (Romania) Deaths from gastrointestinal hemorrhage {{Romania-actor-stub