Career
Marinca was born in Iaşi, Romania. She grew up with a strong foundation in the arts Her mother was a classically trained violinist while her father was a theater professor at the university level
She studied the violin all throughout her childhood when, at around the age of seven, she had announced she wanted to become an actress.
Marinca graduated from the University of Fine Arts, Music and Drama "George Enescu" in Iaşi. As well as appearing on stage in Romanian theatre productions, she also acted in Measure for Measure at the National Theatre in London.
She also appeared in the Francis Ford Coppola film Youth Without Youth. In 2008, she appeared as Yasim Anwar in the British Broadcasting Corporation 5-episode miniseries The Last Enemy.
Marinca appeared in the Romanian drama Boogie and Oliver Hirschbiegel"s acclaimed Five Minutes of Heaven.
She later had a prominent role in the 2014 film Fury, in which she played a German woman named Irma who meets up with an American tank crew during World World War World War II She is a regular in the Welsh television detective series Hinterland.