Loumi Iacobesco

Luminita Iacobescu, born on 15 May 1943 in Bucharest, Romania, finished the Romanian "Theatre and Film Institute 'I. L. Caragiale'"(IATC) Bucharest in 1966, being thereafter for a short time an actress with the "National Theatre 'Marin Sorescu'" in Craiova. She started filming already in the very first years of her studies, acting as Tincuta in "Tudor" (1963), a film directed by Lucian Bratu, as Sabina Lipan in "Victoria Street or Key of Dreams" ("Calea Victoriei sau Cheia Visurilor", 1966), after Cezar Petrescu's novel, directed by Marius Teodorescu, as Cora Monroe in "The Last Mohican" (1968), after James Fenimore Cooper's novel, and "Die Lederstrumpfgeschichten" (1968), two French-Romanian co-productions, directed both by Jean Dréville, Pierre Gaspard-Huit and Sergiu Nicolaescu... She was asked to present the "The Golden Hind Festival" ("'Cerbul de Aur' Festival") in Brasov, where she met the pianist of French singer Barbara, to which she got married, leaving the country for Paris. In France she kept up filming, changing her name into Loumi Jacobesco, playing two leading parts, Marianne in "Rue de Buci" (1972), and Hilda Muramer, in the same movie, but also Madame Bestucheff in a German TV serial "The Adventures of Baron Münchhausen". Her best known film is may be "Lucien Lacombe" (1974), in which she played the part of Betty Beaulieu, which was nominalized for the Film Festival Cannes. She went on filming in French and German productions, also in some TV serials till 1980, but then her career faded away. She keeps living in Paris together with her second husband, the Romanian architect Radu Vincenz.