IATC graduate, Bucharest, 1977, class of professor Dem Rădulescu. Debut (1978) at the "Mihai Eminescu" Theater, Botoşani. Employee of TNC (1981). Born on October 2, 1952, in Timișoara, Tamara Popescu made her debut at the Craiova National Theater in Ion D. Sîrbu's play, "Simion cel Drept", in 1981. She played the role of Brândușa, a name that suited her and still suits her now: a tonic nature, whose cascading laughter cooled and cheered everyone around. Despite the passage of time, it does not appear any different even today, when it is for the Craiova public an overflowing Aneta Duduleanu, biting the juice of the sharp, sarcastic, but charming tongue with which Kirițescu endowed his favorite heroine.

She worked with important directors, from Valentina Balogh, Daniela Peleanu, Mircea Cornișteanu, Cristian Hadji Culea, Theodor Cristian Popescu to Silviu Purcărete, who cast her in "Ubu Rex with scenes from Macbeth", "Fedra", " Orestia", "As you wish or Night from the breaking of the fair", collection shows that traveled the world and imposed the Craiova National in the gallery of the world's great theaters.

She played an unforgettable role, the Grocer's Wife, in Ionesco's "Rhinoceros", directed by the world star Robert Wilson, she was the Old Woman in Ionesco's "Chairs", in a role where she perfectly matched the great Ilie Gheorghe, but she shocked and in the performances of Yiannis Parskevopoulos and Janus Wisniewski, directors of European caliber with whom the Craiova National has collaborated. Her most recent performances are in the shows directed by Hollywood American Peter Schneider, where she plays a gloomy fortune teller that Julius Cesar ignores, or in Radu Afrim's show, "If I think aloud", where, although old, he thought… out loud!

She was Domnica in the show "A treia teăpă" by Marin Sorescu, directed by Mircea Cornişteanu, Melania in the show "Furniture and pain" by Teodor Mazilu, directed by Cristian Hadji Culea, Zoe Trahanache in the show "A lost letter" by Ion Luca Caragiale, directed by Mircea Cornișteanu, the Witch in "Vărul Shakespeare" by Marin Sorescu, directed by Mircea Cornișteanu, but also the Old Woman in the Ionescian "Chairs", where she gave a memorable line to Ilie Gheorghe. He is currently starring in "Oedipus" (dir. Declan Donnella, UK).

She was decorated by the Presidency of Romania with the Cultural Merit class III, category D – Performing Arts (2004).

„Tamara Popescu bears the weight of this singular role in an admirable way. The nuances, the fluid transitions from vague hope to hopelessness, despair, abandonment, repressed passion – and then impetuousness – to fatal determination, have a calligraphy of finesse. The tones - from the whine to the scream -, the movements - from the energy of refusal, to the faltering step, then to the consumption, like a puff of smoke in a suddenly left darkness - denote scruples in detail. The actress' success seems complete to me and I salute her."

Valentin Silvestru, The human voice, in "History of the National Theater in Craiova", Ed. Aius, 2000

„In the role of Aneta Duduleanu, Tamara Popescu perfectly ensures this complicity and when she expresses her opinions, when she offends Vanda or attacks Colette, the game is declared, not hidden, the spectators become witnesses, echo, laughter is empathic. The seduction is set in motion by the line uttered with flirtatiously turned eyes towards the hall "I'll find one of my own and I'll get married!".

Daniela Firescu, Gaițele - museum of figures, "Ramuri" no. 11/2017

„... I believed that Romania would be the most beautiful place on earth, I believed in the Revolution, in democracy, in ideals. When I remember myself and the others around me at the Revolution, I can't help but be happy, we were so happy, so confident in what awaited us, so convinced that the world would be just. We will make laws, we will respect them, we will live better. When I left the country for the first time after 1989, in Edinburgh... I remember how I opened a coffee bag, I will never forget that smell. Since then, whenever I smell coffee, I return to Edinburgh. But it's not just about that, it's about the way we were looked at, we saw shows we didn't hope to see and we were always treated like the others, like the actors playing on the big stages of the world. It was a dream."

Tamara Popescu, Every time I smell coffee, I come back to Edinburgh, interview conducted by Corina Bărbuica, "SpectActor" no. 1/2009