Marius Bizau is a Romanian actor. He was born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in a very difficult historical period. He then moved to Rome when he was only 15. The first years in Italy haven’t been easy for him: he was an outcast and no able to integrate in the Italian society. When he finished school, he started to think about studying theatre and becoming a professional actor.
As he says at the beginning of his Talk, he will share his "story about struggle, hard work, passion, failure, hard work, achievement, hard work and humanity.” He was born in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) in 1983 and grew up in Timisoara (West - on the border between Hungary and Serbia). He lived under the last and most critical period of Nicolae Ceausescu dictatorship, that ended in a revolution started in Mariu’s hometown in 1989. He moved to Rome with his family at age 15. In the beginning, as he just arrived in Italy, he lived a “traumatic and alienating” time, as he himself described it, which fell in 2 years of mutism. In 2008 he graduated from the Accademia Nazionale D’Arte Drammatica Silvio D’Amico. He started his acting career staging classical scripts, such as Hamlet (directed by Armando Pugliese) and Othello (directed by Roberto Guicciardini). Afterwards he collaborated with artists like Cinzia TH Torrini, Francesca Archibugi, Luca Barbareschi, Giancarlo Giannini, Ricky Tognazzi, Paul Haggis and Christopher Lambert. Currently he is working both in Italy and abroad, collaborating with the National Theater of London. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx