Monalisa Basarab[1] (born 23 April 1972, Tulcea) is a Romanian theater and film actress.

She graduated in 1995 from Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca,[1] Faculty of Theater and Television, acting specialization, in the class of professor Sorana Coroamă-Stanca.

Monalisa Basarab made her debut in 1995 on the stage of the Oradea State Theater where she had various roles until 1998.

[5] He made his film debut in 1999 in the ZDF/ARTE/Ifage Wiesbaden episode "Nostradamus-Prophet des Untergangs" in the documentary TV series Sphinx-Geheimnisse der Geschichte, directed by Klein Günther, in which he played Nostradamus' wife.

He appeared in international co-productions in the pilot episode of the action TV series Élodie Bradford[6] in which he starred opposite Anthony Delon; as Princess de Galathionne in the TV movie directed by Lionel Bailliu, Moș Goriot (Le Père Goriot) after the novel of the same name by Honoré de Balzac, as Severine Faussait in the 2003 episode directed by Laurent Carcélès, "Corps et Âmes", Vertiges[7][8][9] In The Way I Spent the End of the World[10][11] directed by Cătălin Mitulescu, a film that participated in the Cannes Film Festival and won the award in the Un Certain Regard section for the best actress (Dorotheea Petre), played the teacher lualalilu, the main character.