Ilinca Manolache

Biography

Ilinca Manolache (born 1 August 1985) is a Romanian actress. Manolache is a frequent collaborator of director Radu Jude. She first appeared in his 2018 feature I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, followed in 2021 by Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn and the short film Caricaturana. In 2021, Manolache created the character of Bobiță, a misogynist with a penchant for foul language and a distinctive appearance achieved using a Snapchat filter. While her Instagram videos as Bobiță were initially poorly received among her theater world contemporaries, the character was incorporated into her next collaboration with Jude, the 2023 film Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World.