Horațiu Mălăele

Horațiu-Valentin Mălăele is a Romanian actor, cartoonist, writer, and theater and film director. In this last capacity he is often associated with the Romanian New Wave.

Biography

Born in 1952 Târgu-Jiu, he had a public art exhibit in his final year of secondary school, the first of over 30 as of 2016.
Mălăele graduated in 1975 from the I.L. Caragiale Institute of Theatre and Film Arts in Bucharest and first became a professional actor with the National Theater of Romania in Piatra Neamț. He returned to Bucharest, where he became a prominent actor, working in many of Romania's leading theaters including Nottara, Odeon, and Bulandra. He then became a director, directing such plays as O sărbătoare princiară by Theodor Mazilu, A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau, and Carlo contra Carlo by Paul Ioachim, which won him that year's Romanian Comedy Festival Prize. He has since directed over a dozen other stage productions.
He first appeared as a film actor in 1974, appearing in two films that year: Păcală and Muntele Ascuns, Nunta mută, Funeralii fericite and Luca.
He has also written two books: the autobiographical Horațiu despre Mălăele ("Horațiu about Mălăele",, and Wanderings, a collection of short episodes, aphorisms, and memories.