Alina Serban

Alina Serban

Born: September 29, 1987
in Bucharest, Romania
Alina Serban (born September 29, 1987) is an award-winning stage, film and television actress, playwright and director who grew up in Bucharest, Romania. She became the first member of her Roma family to graduate from high school and university. After acquiring a drama degree in Bucharest at the Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography, Serban attended the Tisch School of the Arts in New York, and obtained a master's from Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

Movies for Alina Serban...

Housekeeping for Beginners
Title: Housekeeping for Beginners
Character: Suada
Released: April 5, 2024
Type: Movie
Dita, who, despite never aspiring to be a mother, finds herself compelled to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters—Mia, a tiny troublemaker, and Vanesa, a rebellious teenager. As their individual wills clash, a heartwarming story unfolds about an unlikely family's struggle to stay together.
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Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Title: Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Character: Chivuta
Released: April 29, 2021
Type: Movie
Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.
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Title: Gangs of London
Character: Diah
Released: April 23, 2020
Type: TV
When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum his death creates threatens the fragile peace between the intricate web of gangs operating on the streets of the city. Now it’s up to the grieving, volatile and impulsive Sean Wallace to restore control and find those responsible for killing his father.
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Letter of Forgiveness
Title: Letter of Forgiveness
Character: Maria
Released: January 10, 2020
Type: Movie
In the household of a wealthy Romanian noblewoman in 1855, Maria, a Roma-Gipsy slave, fights to obtain freedom for her son Dinca. Part of a future full-length project, the short film presents a day in the household in which Maria and her son, Dinca, serve as slaves. As important guests arrive for dinner and all the slaves are making preparations, Maria and her son see this day as a chance to take a step to change their fate. During slavery time, up until 1856, the Romanian equivalent of the word "forgiveness" was used when referring to freeing someone from slavery (the Roma slave was "forgiven" from slavery).
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Gipsy Queen
Title: Gipsy Queen
Character: Ali
Released: December 6, 2019
Type: Movie
Ali, once a promising young boxer from the Romani community and the only daughter of a Romani leader, falls in disgrace when she gives birth to her second child out of wedlock.
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Doing Money
Title: Doing Money
Character: Lily
Released: April 5, 2019
Type: Movie
A young Romanian woman is snatched in broad daylight from a London street, trafficked to Ireland and used as a sex slave in a series of pop-up brothels. Her shocking true story offers a tense and thought-provoking thriller exposing how, in modern Britain, slavery can hide in plain sight.
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Alone at My Wedding
Title: Alone at My Wedding
Character: Pamela
Released: November 2, 2018
Type: Movie
Pamela, a young Roma, insolent, spontaneous and funny, embarks on a journey into the unknown, breaking away from the traditions that suffocate her. She arrives in Belgium with three words of French and the hope that marriage will change her and her daughter’s destiny.
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Fault Condition
Title: Fault Condition
Character: Mother
Released: February 23, 2018
Type: Movie
Melania, a 15 years old high school student gets pregnant with Emi, a classmate. Melania does not tell anyone she's pregnant, Not even to Emi, or to her parents. The situation is extremely complicated because Emi's mother is the director of the high school where the two lovers study, and Melania's mother is secretary at the same high school. In the fifth month of pregnancy, Melania faints during class hours. She is urgently taken to the hospital by her mother who finds her daughter is 5 months pregnant so it's too late for an abortion. Melanie's mother is forced to tell the truth to Emi's mother. Emi's mother forces Melania's mother to promise to keep the pregnancy secret to everyone, even to Emi. Minor's mothers separates the two lovers and decide to give the baby up for adoption to a family of Romanians living abroad who don't have the right to legally adopt a child from Romania.
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Written / Unwritten
Title: Written / Unwritten
Character: Giuberina
Released: October 27, 2016
Type: Movie
Babisa has just had a beautiful baby girl. But to be released from hospital she needs a signature from her own mum, whom she has not seen since she was a child. Silent observing glances speak volumes in this fast-paced and powerful drama about complex family relationships.
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Title: The Last Enemy
Character: Nadir
Released: February 17, 2008
Type: TV
Stephen Ezard's search for the truth about the death of his brother Michael catapults him into an international conspiracy and a passionate love affair.
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I matter
Title: I matter
Character: Rebeca
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
In a seemingly easy theatre exercise, Rebeca, a young Roma woman, student at an elite acting school, is pushed to confront her biggest fear.