Biography
Cornel-Radu Pietreanu is a Romanian screenwriter and actor. He started his career in 1983 at Cenaclul Orizont of the Petrosani Mine Institute, where he studied for exactly five years, then in 1988 he founded the Vacanta Mare group together with Mugur Mihaescu and Dan Sava. He later moved to Craiova, where he attended TCM for two years, after which in 1992 he was admitted to the Faculty of Theater and Directing, where he stayed for three years. In total, he completed ten years of university, but did not finish any of them. But during all that time, and even after that, he managed to make 22 years of the Great Holiday, both on stage and on television. From 1999, as a member of the Vacanta Mare group, he appeared in weekly shows on Pro TV, and from the beginning of 2007, the Vacanta Mare group moved from Pro TV to Kanal D, where he appeared until April 2009. He then presented the "Fabrica de Parodii Vamuz" show on Etno TV, and is currently employed by Antena 1. On the night of March 9 to 10, 2001, a police patrol from Nanesti, Vrancea, caught Radu Pietreanu while he was transporting three bags of meat and deer skins in a Nissan car. He was accused that, together with businessman Leonard Neculai, from Focsani, he shot a stag and a deer in a forest near Nanesti commune. Two hunting rifles were also discovered in the car. He was sentenced to two years in prison, with the execution of the sentence suspended, under supervision. At Antena 1, since the end of February 2014, Radu Pietreanu presents, together with Mugur Mihaescu, a show in 12 editions, entitled "Great Holiday - Battle of Generations".
