Valeriu Andriuță was born in Lazovsk, USSR, in 1967. Valeriu studied engineering in Chișinău before graduating as an actor in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1993. He moved to Bucharest and studied theater directing, graduating in 1998. During his studies, starting in 1994, he acted in all Cristian Mungiu’s fiction shorts, and in 2002 appeared in the director’s feature debut, Occident (Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes 2002).

Andriuță staged and directed several theater plays while continuing to work as a theater and film actor before directing a couple of short films himself. He currently lives in Ireland. Andriuță’s role in Beyond the Hills is his tenth appearance in a film directed by

Cristian Mungiu.