Early Life
Sebastian Stan was born in Constanta, Romania.He has stated that this his parents divorced when he was two years old. At the age of eight, Stan and his mother, Georgeta Orlovschi, moved to Vienna, Austria, following the Romanian Revolution, where Georgeta was employed as a pianist. Four years later, they moved to Rockland County, New York, after his mother married Anthony Fruhauf, the Headmaster of Rockland Coutry Day School, where Stan was educated.
During Stan's years at the Rockland school, he starred in productions including Harvey, Cyrano de Bergerac, Little Shop of Horrors, Over Here!, and West Side Story. He also atteded the Stagedoor Manor summer camp where he was cast in many camp productions. It was then he decided to take acting seriously and began to apply for acting programs at several universities. He was accepted to and attended Rutgers University's Mason Gross Scholl of the Arts, which also gave him the opportunity to spend a year abroad studyig acting at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, England. Stan became a United States citizen in 2002.
