Maia Morgenstern

Maia Emilia Ninel Morgenstern is a Romanian actress who works in both film and theater. She became famous in Romania playing Nela in the 1992 film Balanța, called The Oak in the United States. Maia Morgenstern appears nude in Bed Of Procust from 2002 and also in The Bra. She was born on May 1, 1962, in Bucharest, Romania. Outside Romania she is best known as Mary, the mother of Jesus, in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. The Oak was set during the last days of Communist Romania. In 2011 she was given a star on the Romanian Walk of Fame in Bucharest. Florin Mitu of AMOS News described her in 2007 as a symbol of her country's stage and screen.