The Most Famous
ACTORS from Moldova
This page contains a list of the greatest Moldovan Actors. The pantheon dataset contains 9,996 Actors, 2 of which were born in Moldova. This makes Moldova the birth place of the 93rd most number of Actors behind North Korea and Eritrea.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Moldovan Actors of all time. This list of famous Moldovan Actors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Maria Cebotari (1910 - 1949)
With an HPI of 55.53, Maria Cebotari is the most famous Moldovan Actor. Her biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.
Maria Cebotari (original name: Ciubotaru, 10 February 1910 – 9 June 1949) was a Bessarabian-Romanian lyric coloratura soprano. She was widely known as a singer by the mid 1930s and noted in particular for her wide range of repertoire. Beniamino Gigli stated that Cebotari was one of the greatest female voices he had ever heard. Maria Callas was compared to her, and Angela Gheorghiu named Maria Cebotari among the artists she admires the most. With thousands of people in attendance, her funeral was "one of the most imposing demonstrations of love and honor any deceased artist has ever received" in the history of Vienna.
2. Svetlana Toma (1947 - )
With an HPI of 48.03, Svetlana Toma is the 2nd most famous Moldovan Actor. Her biography has been translated into 21 different languages.
Svetlana Andreevna Toma (Russian: Светлана Андреевна Тома, born Svetlana Andreevna Fomichyova (Russian: Светлана Андреевна Фомичёва) on May 24, 1947) is a Soviet actress. She debuted at the Moldova-Film studio in 1966. She worked in the Soviet Union. She is the mother of actress Irina Lachina. Toma gained global fame after starring in the film Queen of the Gypsies directed by Emil Loteanu, which brought her huge international success as an actress. The picture was bought by 112 countries. This record still has not been beaten by any Soviet or Russian film. Her artistic alias 'Toma' is usually pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable. However, the actress herself points out that originally (with emphasis on the second syllable) it was the surname of her maternal great-grandmother, who was of French origin.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as actors born between 1910 and 1947. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living actors include Svetlana Toma. The most famous deceased actors include Maria Cebotari.
