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Maria-Victoria Dragus

German actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ1457314
Source-derived summary

Maria-Victoria Drăguș (born 1994) is a Romanian-German actress. Her film credits include If Not Us, Who?, Summer Outside and Kill Me. One notable role was in Palme d'Or-winning 2009 film The White Ribbon. She has had reoccurring roles in the television programs Dance Academy and Leipzig Homicide. She has a younger sister Paraschiva, and is the niece of the French writer Viorel Dragus.

Selected filmography

The White Ribbon (2009)

If Not Us, Who?

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Maria-Victoria Dragus” as german actress. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1994-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Maria-Victoria, Dragus and German can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as german actress. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1457314. VIAF identifies the subject as 311574834. The Library of Congress control number is no2018070285. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994 and 2009.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Maria-Victoria Dragus”, its source revision and the description used here.
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Maria-Victoria Dragus”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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This entry incorporates text from Maria-Victoria Dragus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.