Akritsa Sanda Toma died on Saturday at the age of 88. She was considered “one of the most important members of the Comedy Theater family.”

“We regretfully announce the death of actress Sanda Tom, one of the most important members of the Comedy Theater family. (…) With each person who leaves us, the world fades. Our duty, the theater and the audience, is to revive it with each by memory,” the Comedy Theater writes on its official Facebook page.

Born on October 27, 1934 in Bucharest, Sanda Toma attended the St. Mary’s Institute on Pitarmosh Street and later the Gheorghe Lazar High School. Then, after vacillating and searching between polytechnics and literature, Sanda Toma enters the IL Caragiale Theater Institute, which she graduates, in the class of teacher Aura Buzescu.

He made his debut in 1956 at the National Theater in Craiova, an institution where he played until 1958, returning to Bucharest as an actor at the National Theater until 1960.

In 1961, at the invitation of Radu Beligan, he joined the team of the Comedy Theater, where he was a model of professionalism, behavior and human qualities until 1994. After the role of Diana in the performance at the opening of the theater “Celebrul 702”, Sanda Toma participates in all the successful performances of “Comedy”: “Umbra” by Yevgeny Schwartz, “Troil and Cressida” by V. Shakespeare, staged by David Esrig; House of Broken Hearts by JB Shaw, directed by Radu Penchulescu; Rhinoceros by E. Ionesco, Cher Antoine by Jean Anouille, Stormy Night by I. L. Caragiale, Mutter Courage by B. Brecht, Three Sisters and the Cherry Orchard by A. P. Chekhov – directed by Lucian Giurcescu or Harold and Maude Colin Higgins, directed by Sanda Manu. In 2011, she returned for the role of Celine in Maria Pacome’s Teach Me Celine, directed by Lucian Giurcescu.

At the National Theater in Bucharest, he played in the plays of Sike Alexandrescu (Goldon’s Hangita, Tudor Muschatescu’s Titanic Waltz), Ion Fintestianu (Moliere’s Tartuffe), Ion Kojar (Noël Coward’s Waiting for the Harlequin) and Alexandra Tocilescu (comedy ). Rome of Constantine Turturic).

In the performances of the director David Esrig, Sanda Toma received an early but also decisive confirmation in the theater due to the praise brought by the playwright E. Ionesco himself on the occasion of the performance with “Rhino” at the Theater of Nations in Paris. . Of course, there was no lack of praise from the most important specialized magazines in Romania and abroad, and the title of the article about “Troil and Cressida” from the Parisian magazine “Arts” remains defining for the acting art of Sanda Tom: “Lesson from the theater from Romania” (Gilles Sandier, Arts, May 24, 1965)