Elvira Popescu, known as Elvire Popesco, is a Romanian and French actress, born May 10, 1894 in Colentina, a district of Bucharest (Romania) and died December 11, 1993 in Paris.

Born in 1894, an uncle, an actor, prepared her for the conservatory. At sixteen, she made her debut at the National Theater in Bucharest in a play by William Shakespeare. She became a member of the national theater in Bucharest in 1914, and played in several tragedies and a few silent films. She marries another actor, Aurel Athananesco. She also created two theaters in Bucharest, the Theatrul Excelsior in 1919, and the Theatrul Mic in 1923.

1925 poster painted and signed by Charles Gesmar, where on a pink background a young and smiling Elvire Popesco, of an emblematic elegance of the Paris of the Roaring Twenties, very made up, hairstyle in the boyish style, the red hair, seems to pose with an assurance skull, hands on hips. She wears dangling pearl earrings and is dressed in a richly embroidered black jacket with a thick black fur collar. On one shoulder is a white scarf, possibly silk.
Poster by Charles Gesmar (1925).
The same year 1923, she left for France. In Paris, she meets the author Louis Verneuil. He was impressed by her talent and wrote her a comedy: My cousin from Warsaw played from December 1923. From that month of December 1923, the authenticity of her comic vein and her accent made her a "sacred monster" of the boulevard theatre. Having become the privileged interpreter of Louis Verneuil, she also triumphed in Tovaritch (Jacques Deval, 1933), La Machine infernale (1954), but also in plays by Henri Bernstein and André Roussin: Nina (1949), La Mamma ( 1957) and The Seer (1971).

Remarried in September 1939 with Maximilien Sébastien Foy (1900-1967), she thus became Baroness then Countess Foy and held in the property of Mézy-sur-Seine (the Paul Poiret villa, which she bought in 1934), a salon frequented by all of Paris.

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