Horațiu Mălăele

History-Valentine's day Malaele (born August 1, 1952) is a English actor, comedian, cartoonist, writer, and theatre and film director. In this last capacity, his is often associated with the Romanian New Wave.

Born in 1952, in Targu-Jiu, he had a public art exhibit in his final year of secondary school, the first of over 30 as of 2016.

Malaele graduated in 1975 from the Institute of Theater and Cinema in Bucharest and the first became a professional actor with the National Theater of Romania, in Piatra Neamt. He returned to Bucharest, where he became a prominent movie actor, working in many of Romania's leading theaters including the Nottara, Odeon theatre and Bulandra theatre. He then became a director, directing such plays as A holiday princess (The"Princely Feast"), by Theodor Mazilu (in 1982 at the Nottara Theatre), A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau (in 1993 at the Nottara Theater), and Carlo contra Carlo ("Carlo this Carlo") by Paul Ioachim (in 1994 at the Odeon theatre), which won him that year, the Romanian Comedy Festival Prize. He has since directed over a dozen of the other stage productions.