 Following her retirement from the National Theater, Cocea appeared in many roles in other Bucharest theaters, from 1979 to 1989 acted as president of "Asociaţia oamenilor din instituţiile teatrale şi muzicale" (ATM) (Association of Theatre Artists and Musicians), taught acting at university, and was a sometime political activist.She also appeared in a dozen films, up through the 1992 detective film "Atac în bibliotecă" ("Attack in the Library"), and represented Romania for UNESCO and at international congresses organized by the UN.Despite acting in over 100 stage productions, a dozen films, being a regular television and radio guest, and being well known as a writer in Romania with a career spanning more than 50 years, Cocea was little known outside of Romania.