Carmen Tanase (born January 18, 1961) is a Romanian actress. After graduating The Drama and Film Institute from Bucharest, in 1984, she joined the company of "Vasile Alecsandri" National Theatre in Iaşi (between 1984-1990) and then moved back to the capital city of Romania. Since 1990, she is a member of the Odeon Theatre company from Bucharest. As a student, she played in Dostoevsky's The Possessed (a dramatization of the great Russian novel), in John Steinbeck's Sweet Thursday, in Butterflies, Butterflies by the Italian playwright Aldo Nicolaj (at The Very Small Theatre in Bucharest, having the legendary Romanian actress Olga Tudorache and Radu Duda, the would-be Prince of Hohenzollern-Veringen, as partners) etc. Following the fall of the Romanian communist regime, in 1989 (the end of Nicolae Ceauşescu's dictatorship), she also involved herself in the independent artistic movements that flourished after these events. She toured the world with Radu Duda, the two of them playing in A Report to an Academy, the adaptation of a short story by Franz Kafka, directed by Cristina Iovita (the play was produced by the first Romanian independent theatrical group formed after the 1989 Revolution). Stage credits (selected) Teatrelli, Bucharest Diana in California Suite by Neil Simon, directed by Gelu Colceag Comedy Theatre, Bucharest Polina Andreevna in The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, directed by Claudiu Goga Odeon Theatre, Bucharest Dr. Martha Livingstone in Agnes of God by John Pielmeier, directed by Marius Oltean The chief nurse in Veronika Decides To Die, adaptation by Gelu Colceag and George Banica after the homonymous novel by Paulo Coelho, directed by Gelu Colceag Colette Duduleanu in The Rattlers by Al. Kiritescu, directed by Alexandru Dabija Lora in Stars In The Morning Light by Alexandr Galin, directed by Gelu Colceag Paraschiva in Miss Nastasia by G.M. Zamfirescu, directed by Horea Popescu Pierette in The Gossip Ladies by Michel Tremblay, directed by Petre Bokor The old gipsy woman in At The Gipsy Women by Cristian Popescu, based on the short story by Mircea Eliade, directed by Alexander Hausvater …And They Put Handcuffs On The Flowers… by Fernando Arrabal, directed by Alexander Hausvater The Grin Opera by Dario Fo, directed by Dragos Galgotiu National Theatre, Iasi Mona in A Nameless Star by Mihail Sebastian, directed by Nicoleta Toia She in The Boa's Strategy after A.P. Chekhov, directed by Nicoleta Toia Gittel in Two for the Seesaw by William Gibson, directed by Ion Manzatu