Nadia is a 1984

1984 in film

-Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....

 made-for-television biopic of gymnast Nadia Comăneci

Nadia Comaneci

Nadia Elena Comăneci is a Romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the first female gymnast ever to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is also the winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer...

. The film was directed by Alan Cooke.

Plot summary

Based on a true story about Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci. Nadia began training competitively at age six, after being discovered by world-famous coaches, Bela Karolyi and his wife Marta. She became the first Olympic gymnast to score a perfect 10 at age 14 and walked away with three gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. Her weight gain and the increasing pressure of competition later threatened her career.

Cast list

• Marcia Frederick as Nadia Comăneci
• Johann Carlo
  Johann Carlo
  -Life and career:Carlo was born in Buffalo, New York. She made her Broadway debut in 1983, appearing alongside Kate Nelligan as Louise in David Hare's Plenty. In 1991, she returned to Broadway for Richard Jones' La Bête. She was commissioned by the Whitney Museum to write, direct and perform in the...
  
   as Older Nadia Comăneci
• Leslie Weiner as Young Nadia Comăneci
• Joe Bennett as Bela Karolyi
  Béla Károlyi
  Béla Károlyi is a Romanian gymnastics coach. He was born in what was then Kolozsvár, Hungary, a region restored to Romanian administration after 1944. Károlyi and his wife, Márta, also of Hungarian origin, emigrated to the United States in 1981 and both have dual citizenships for Romania and the...
  
  
• Talia Balsam
  Talia Balsam
  Talia Balsam is an American actress.-Early life:Balsam was born in New York City to actors Martin Balsam and Joyce Van Patten.-Career:...
  
   as Marta Karolyi
  Marta Károlyi
  Márta Károlyi , is an American gymnastics coach and the National Team Coordinator for USA Gymnastics. Károlyi is originally from Romania, she and her husband, Béla, are ethnic Hungarians, and trained athletes there as well, but defected to the United States in 1981...
  
  
• Jonathan Banks
  Jonathan Banks
  Jonathan Ray Banks is an American actor in film and television.Banks was born in Washington, D.C. in 1947. His mother worked for the CIA. Banks attended Indiana University Bloomington where he was a classmate of Kevin Kline...
  
   as George Comăneci
• Conchata Ferrell
  Conchata Ferrell
  Conchata Galen Ferrell is an American actress. She is best known for playing Berta the housekeeper in the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men, for which she received two Emmy Award nominations in 2005 and 2007.-Personal life:...
  
  as Mili Simonescu