SMARANDA LUNA SAG-AFTRA Height: 5’8’’ Eyes: Brown Body Type: Athletic Hair: Brown www.smarandaluna.com FILM Closer to the Moon (opp. Vera Farmiga and Mark Strong) Supporting Independent Feature / Dir. Nae Caranfil The Fundamentalist Supporting AFI Short/Dir. David Henry Gerson Play Lead Independent Feature/Dir. Dara Friedman Belle of the Ball * Lead Independent Short / Dir. John Brookbank Nikolai Lead UCLA / Dir. Elysse Holander My American Baby Lead USC/ Dir. Tadious Odissu In This Place Lead Independent Short / Dir. Amy Bench A New Man Lead Independent Short / Dir. Russell Bush Silver Wedding Lead Independent Short / Dir. Sunny Cho Clothes Horse** Lead Independent Short / Dir. Craig Elrod Mere La Cuptor (Romanian Language Film) Lead Independent Short / Dir. Alexandru Mavrodineanu Trafic*** (Romanain Language Film) Lead Independent Short / Dir. Catalin Mitulescu * Winner, IOWest Film Festival ** Official Selection, South by Southwest Film Festival *** Winner, The Golden Palm for Short Films, Cannes Film Festival TELEVISION Harley and the Davidsons Co-Star Discovery Patti and Marina Lead Independent Pilot THEATRE Mammoth Spring Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica Home Miss S. Actor’s Collective, Hollywood Your Authentic Self Dr. Popescu Theatre of Note, Hollywood A Midsummer Night’s Dream Hippolyta The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles Metamorphoses Alcyone, Pomona Zach Scott Theatre, Austin, TX Black Snow* Ivan Vasilievici Salvage Vanguard Theatre, Austin, TX Clean House** Mathilde Zach Scott Theatre, Austin, TX Blue Point Rhonda Dir. Charlie Otte, Lab Theatre, Austin, TX Orestes Helen of Troy The Off Center, Austin, TX The Psyche Project Circe Blue Theatre Austin, TX Trojan Women Cassandra UT School of Drama, Austin, TX The Idiot** Nastasya UT School of Drama, Austin, TX Lend Me a Tenor Maria Merelli U of Arkansas School of Drama, Fayetteville Love Rides the Rails Carlotta U of Arkansas School of Drama, Fayetteville * Winner - Best Supporting Actress, Austin Critics Table Award ** Nominated for B. Iden Payne Award(s), Austin, TX TRAINING AND EDUCATION Improvisation - IOWest (ongoing) Level 7 IOWest Comedy Theater, Los Angeles UCB & Theatre Sports Vancouver Masterclass Scene Study (ongoing) Judith Weston Los Angeles On camera work Risa Bramon Garcia Los Angeles Dialects Sandra Butterworth London, Los Angeles National University of Dramatic Arts - Bucharest, Romania Fulbright Institute Scholar for Drama M.F.A. in Acting - University of Texas, Austin SPECIAL SKILLS ACCENTS: General American, Eastern European: Romanian, Russian; Italian, French LANGUAGES: Fluent in Romanian, French and Spanish Stand Up, U.S Passport, European Union Passport, Stage Combat, Modern Dance & Swimming .