Violeta Urmana, a Lithuanian singer and actor, is best known for her notable career in the theater, most notably as the protagonist in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus. She is a nominee for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (The King’s Speech) and has also received Golden Globe nominations for her performances in Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, Othello and Macbeth. She is also a popular television personality on the popular television series MIB: Men in Black. Born in Alma, the first ever Lithuanian princess, she is the middle sister of Rostys and went to study in London with him before turning sixteen.
Violeta Urmana was born in Alma and is one half brother of the late Lithuanian president Viljandi Lithuanian. As such, she was a very young child during the time of her parents’ marriage. Her mother died when Violeta was only nine years old, while her father stayed away from home to work abroad. He was reported to be an alcoholic and was never near his family. Violeta was therefore, not raised in a household with a father, nor did her relations know that he was unemployed until they were invited to visit him in Greece when their father returned there.
Vaina was not immediately taken to her mother’s homeland, but was instead welcomed into a British military school, Sandringham College, on the Isle of Wight, by her teacher, John Suckling. She then attended St. John’s College in Cambridge, England, for two years studying drama. There, under the tutelage of the noted dramatist John Templeton, she took a gap year in Paris. It was here that she met and fell in love with a fellow student, Oliver Cromwell, who was then also studying in England.