Who is tudor petrut

Official Photos ». From his beginnings as a child actor in his native Romania, Petrut went on to receive formal training in theater, film and television at the prestigious Theater and Film Art See full bio ». Born: December 1 , in Bucharest, Romania. Filmography by Job Trailers and Videos.

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Show all Hide all Show by When I graduated with a degree in theater, film, and television directing a fairly rare specialty in this combination , I thought I was ready to take on the world. Even if enamored with the stage, I was lucky enough to be cast in some RomaniaFilm full-features in the mid-eighties. And then American happened. I met this California girl who was studying at the University of Bucharest.

She spoke excellent Romanian, was very respectful about her background, and enjoyed being a student in, and discovering the country of her forefathers. She became the American mother of my sons. Together we moved to California…. It was not an easy mental journey from a successful artist in Romania to a citizen Z in the capital of world entertainment. Regardless of what some say, you are in a cultural shock. Like facing Mount Everest and suddenly realizing you have to climb all the way up there.

Probably alone. Hollywood was as far from me as eyes can see. And in between was survival and the need to raise our children. Because most of us, East-Europeans, received a fairly strict and structured basic education, I was pretty good in Math. I passed all the necessary exams, enrolled at Cal State Long Beach, and accepted a job as a Mathematics teacher.

All my screenplays that I expected to be my ticket to stardom were put on hold. I was fairly happy to just have a normal life. But then, it is like a virus… I have been a high-school Algebra teacher for a long time, working for a challenging district with rewarding results. One day, leaders of the Romanian-American community called me with the news that a casting agency was specifically looking for Eastern-European actors.

I contacted the agency and recommended everyone else I knew, until they flatly asked me to audition, because I was, at that point, the only qualified candidate. That was my triumphal return to the Hollywood game. And triumphant it was. The rest is history. I was downtown Bucharest during the days of the revolution in the winter of , after the fall of the Wall of Berlin.

Romania was the last dictatorship to be dismantled under popular pressure, not before thousands of young revolutionaries were met with military bullets, and some sacrificed for the popular good. It is still hard to express in words the happenings and the emotions from those days of unchartered socio-political territory. It did unleash a lot of ugliness and hate. Sometimes more than generating hope. After I moved to the USA, and I started my teaching career, it was really hard for me to understand some nuances of modern Californian pedagogy.

I mean, I was coming from a well structured educational system, based on discipline and respect, and effective presentation of materials, concepts, and ideas, especially in all STEM.