Irina Săulescu (born May 6, 1976, in Bucharest, Romania) is a Romanian film and theatre actress who graduated from the National University of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography. She made her first film role in the short Dimineata (2007) and also worked as a casting assistant on True True Lie (2006) before transitioning fully to acting. Her most notable film credits include Anca in Police, Adjective (2009, Un Certain Regard at Cannes, 79% on Rotten Tomatoes), Mirror Person in Mirrors (2008, with Kiefer Sutherland), Francesca in 21 Rubies (2023, with Mickey Rourke), Silvia in Eva (2010), and a Peasant Woman in Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man (2010). On television she appeared as a Reporter in Comrade Detective (2017, 3 episodes), Sandy in A Christmas Prince (2017, with Rose McIver), a Police Speaker in Why Me? (2015, with Emilian Oprea), and Martha Hatfield (uncredited) in Hatfields & McCoys (2012, with Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton), with additional credits in Bunraku (2010, uncredited) and Walking with the Enemy (2013, with Ben Kingsley). More recently she appeared in the short Better This Way (2024) and A Distance (2017).
