15 Facts About Mircea Diaconu

Mircea Diaconu acted in some sixty films through the 2000s, and continued to act in theatre during the ensuing decade.

Mircea Diaconu took part in the Romanian Revolution of 1989.

Mircea Diaconu was obliged to join the Romanian Communist Party during his second year of university, due to the high grades he had achieved.

Mircea Diaconu made his theatrical debut a year before finishing university, at the Bulandra Theater, in Truman Capote's The Grass Harp.

Mircea Diaconu worked with Lucian Pintilie both in film and in theater: Gogol's The Government Inspector at Bulandra, and Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Nottara Theater.

Mircea Diaconu became the director of Nottara Theater in 2004, working as such until his resignation in 2011.

Mircea Diaconu spent the night outdoors with students, believing that, although the uprising lacked familiar leaders who could be trusted, the crowd at least recognized popular actors' faces.

Mircea Diaconu taught acting at his alma mater between 1977 and 1978, and again from 1991 to 1998.

Mircea Diaconu wrote three books that appeared under the Communist regime.

Mircea Diaconu began his political career in 2008, when he was elected to the Senate for Arges County as a member of the National Liberal Party.

In March 2014, when the PNL failed to include him on its list of candidates for that year's European Parliament election, Mircea Diaconu decided to run as an independent.

Mircea Diaconu is thought to have significantly eroded the PNL vote, with one party member, Nicolae Robu, claiming Diaconu cut its performance by nearly half.

Subsequently, ALDE and PRO Romania formed an electoral alliance in support of Mircea Diaconu, called "Un Om".

Mircea Diaconu's proposals included expanding the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant and salvaging the Rovinari Power Station; building and revitalizing Danube River ports and bridges, using European Union funds; unifying small landholdings into larger, more profitable farms; and a stricter approach to school discipline, such as banning mobile phones and reintroducing uniforms.

Mircea Diaconu died from colon cancer at the Institutul Clinic Fundeni, in Bucharest, on 14 December 2024.