Tunde Skovran was born in Transylvania, Romania. After graduating in 2005 from Babes Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) with a Bachelor degree in Drama, she became a repertoire actress at the prestigious Hungarian State Theatre in Cluj-Napoca. Her credits include productions under the direction of world-renowned directors such as Robert Woodruff, Alain Timar, Gabor Tompa, Silviu Purcarete. In 2008, she was nominated for Romania’s most prestigious theatre award, the UNITER Award.
In 2014, she was recognized as one of the most promising young actresses in Central and Eastern Europe, and was invited to participate in the Sarajevo International Film Festival Talent Campus. She is a Berlinale Talent alumnus. She made her movie debut in Puzzle (2013), a Castel Film (Romania) and Double 4 Studios (U.S.) production, for which she was awarded Best actress in a lead role at two international US film festivals.
She’s currently living in Los Angeles, where she was an observer at The Actors Studio West. She starred in a few movies, and in 2016 she created J.U.S.T. Toys, a theatre production company that became a pioneer for experimental theater in Los Angeles. She produced and starred in acclaimed productions, the last of which opened off Broadway in 2019, under the direction of Yuri Kordonsky.
