Born on January 23, 1940, Corabia, Romanati county. Actor, director, theater manager. He graduated from the Theater Faculty, Acting Section, within the Bucharest Institute of Theater and Cinematography Art (in 1963, class of professor Dinu Negreanu). Between 1963 and 1988 he was an actor of the National Theater in Craiova. Between 1988 and 2000, he was director of the National Theater in Craiova. In 1994, he founded the "Shakespeare" International Festival, which became one of the most important in its class, attended by the most prestigious directors and theater groups. He is president of the Shakespeare Foundation (Craiova), vice-president of the European Network of Shakespeare Festivals, member of the UNITER Senate. During the period in which he led the National Theater in Craiova, it was projected into the center of attention of the world of performance, becoming one of the most appreciated theaters in Central and Eastern Europe, with participation in major international festivals, laureates of prestigious international and national awards . Remarkable, in this sense, was the collaboration with director Silviu Purcărete. In 2020, he founded the Poetry Theater "Poesis", where he evolves in the great tradition of the actor reciting poetry. Emil Boroghină is a very important reciter, supporting shows of great sensitivity, selecting fundamental poets, Dante, Shakespeare, Nichita Stănescu, Mihai Eminescu, Ovidiu. Among such shows: From Shakespeare and Hamlet to Eugen Ionescu and Bérenger (2013), Recitind l pe Eminescu... La steaua care-a rasărit (2014), Stronger than death is love - from the love poetry of the world, Tel Aviv (Singing of Songs, sonnets by Dante Aligheri, Francesco Petrarca, Michelangelo, Pierre de Ronsard, William Shakespeare and Mihai Eminescu, 2015), Recitindu l pe Shakespeare – The whole world is a stage and all men are actors (2016), Ovidiu – Sorrows and Pontices (2015-2020), Song of the Ages – folk poetry show (2019), Dante’s Journey (performed on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, 2021). Emil Boroghină gave, over time, numerous interviews that could constitute, put together, the novel of a vocation. He received numerous awards and distinctions: the Award for directing, awarded by the criticism section of UNITER (1991), the Award for the best theater director (1993), the Award of the Romanian Academy, the Award of the Foundation for Theater and Film for the most important personality of Romanian Theater (1995), the 1995 Man of the Year award, awarded by the American Biographical Institute, the 21st Century Man award, for outstanding achievements, by the International Biographical Center Cambridge (2001), the British Council Award for the best theater manager, the UNITER Gala Award ( 2015), the National Order "Faithful Service" in the rank of Knight, the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Academy of Music, Theater and Fine Arts in Chisinau (2017) and of the University of Craiova (2018), the Excellence Award of the International Academy "Mihai Eminescu" from Craiova (2019). He is an Honorary Citizen of the municipality of Craiova and the city of Corabia.

Decorated with the Order "Faithful Service" in the rank of Knight, by the Presidency of Romania.

"I saw Phaedra in Brussels and I was fascinated by the directing art of Silviu Purcărete, the strength of these refined actors - Leni Pințea Homeag, Ilie Gheorghe, Angel Rababoc - the plastic expressiveness of the choir. The impression was not only of a great show, but also of a great spiritual family, of an exceptional team spirit. This fact is due, I think, equally to Silviu Purcărete but also to Emil Boroghină, a great ambassador of the Romanian theater."

                                           Ruth Valentini "Le Nouvel Observateur" January 15, 1995

"He placed his life under the sign of dedication and fulfillment. On the one hand, Shakespeare was his companion and, then, he found support in the rare books that found a world and transmit a wisdom. In Emil Boroghină, what captivates is a cello sound, because he expresses himself cautiously, with emotion: in behind the lyrics we identify the subtly modulated discretion of a performer who exposes himself in all his humanity! The actor's recital is also an affective x-ray. Thanks to these unquenchable loves, Emil enjoys the agreement with age that did not damage him, but, on the contrary, brightened him up. He didn't betray, he defended!"

                     George Banu, Emil Boroghină at the age of eighty, "SpectActor" no. 2/2020

„When I think of Emil Boroghină, whose service I have benefited from since he brought to London, in 1997, the earth-shattering performance of Silviu Purcărete's Titus Andronicus, and whom I am lucky enough to have known personally for more than a decade, the thought takes me to a remarkable figure in my own national culture. It is about David Garrick, the 18th-century actor and manager who ran London's Theater Royal, Drury Lane, England's de facto national theater from the 1740s to the 1770s.”

                                      Michael Dobson, Emil Boroghină, „SpectActor”, nr. 2/2020