Hrvati
by discovery1492 | created - 19 Aug 2012 | updated - 19 Aug 2012 | PublicCroatians
1. Goran Visnjic
Actor | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Goran Visnjic is a Croatian American actor and producer, born in Sibenik, Croatia. He is married to Eva Visnjic (formerly Ivana Vrdoljak) with whom has three children. From an early age Visnjic started appearing in various theater plays. At the age of 16, he had his screen debut in the film Braca ...
2. Stana Katic
Actress | Castle
Stana Katic recently starred in the TV series, Absentia, streaming on Amazon. It's a thriller-drama produced by Sony Pictures Television. Upon debut it was one of Amazon's top-ten most popular programs.
Stana's feature film work includes, CBGB, Big Sur, The Spirit, Feast of Love, The Double and Bond...
3. Eric Bana
Actor | Dirty John
Eric Bana was born Eric Banadinovic on August 9, 1968, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is the younger of two brothers. His father, named Ivan Banadinovic, came from Zagreb, Croatia, and worked as a manager for Caterpillar Inc. His mother, named Eleanor Banadinovic, came from a German family ...
4. Ivana Milicevic
Actress | Just Like Heaven
Ivana Milicevic (pronounced Ee-vah-nah Mee-lee-cheh-veech) was born on April 26, 1974, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (part of Yugoslavia at the time), into a Croat family. She is the daughter of Tonka and Damir Milicevic, and has a younger brother, Tomo. The family emigrated to the United ...
5. Scott Bakula
Actor | Quantum Leap
Scott Stewart Bakula was born on October 9, 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri, to Sally (Zumwinkel) and J. Stewart Bakula, a lawyer. He is of German, as well as Czech, Austrian, Scottish and English ancestry. He comes from a musical family. In the fourth grade, he started a rock band and wrote songs for ...
6. Yvonne Suhor
Actress | The Young Riders
Yvonne Suhor, visiting assistant professor of theatre, received her MFA from the University of California and has been a professional actress, director and teacher for several years. She was a regular on ABC's The Young Riders (1989), played Cicely in an Emmy award-winning episode of Northern ...
7. Werner Herzog
Director | Fitzcarraldo
Director. Writer. Producer. Actor. Poet. He studied history, literature and theatre for some time, but didn't finish it and founded instead his own film production company in 1963. Later in his life, Herzog also staged several operas in Bayreuth, Germany, and at the Milan Scala in Italy. Herzog has...
8. Denise Richards
Actress | The World Is Not Enough
Denise Richards was born in Downers Grove, Illinois, the older of two daughters of Joni Lee, who owned a coffee shop, and Irv Richards, a telephone engineer. She has German, French-Canadian, Irish, English, and Welsh ancestry. She grew up in the Chicago area, until the family relocated to Oceanside...
9. John Malkovich
Actor | Being John Malkovich
John Gavin Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois, to Joe Anne (Choisser), who owned a local newspaper, and Daniel Leon Malkovich, a state conservation director. His paternal grandparents were Croatian. In 1976, Malkovich joined Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, newly founded by his friend Gary ...
10. Ivana Basic
Actress | The Rhythm Section
Grew up in Split, Croatia. She started acting when she was a child, joining a youth drama group "Tito's sailors" After finishing high school "Vladimir Nazor" in Split moved to London to study acting. Ivana is animal lover and active in animal rights movement. She has been vegan for the past 7 years.
11. Rene Bitorajac
Actor | No Man's Land
Rene Bitorajac is a Croatian actor. He has appeared in a number of Croatian and Bosnian films since the 1980s. Most notably, he starred in the 2001 Academy Award-winning Bosnian film "No Man's Land". He is also known for starring in popular Croatian television sitcoms "Bitange i princeze" (2005-...
12. Petar Cvirn
Actor | Before We Die
Petar Cvirn was born in Zagreb, Croatia. He is an actor, known for Before We Die (2021), FBI: International (2021) and The Ipcress File (2022).
13. Danira Govic
Actress | Hotel Babylon
Danira Govic was born in 1973 in Sibenik, Croatia. She is an actress, known for Hotel Babylon (2006), Forbidden Love (2004) and Metropolitanci (2022).
14. Stipe Erceg
Actor | Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei
Stipe Erceg was born on October 30, 1974 in Split, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Croatia]. He is an actor and producer, known for The Edukators (2004), Unknown (2011) and The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008).
15. Kristina Krepela
Actress | The Hunting Party
Kristina Krepela is a Croatian actress. She trained on the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. Her first role was in the short-movie Leptir (2003), in 2003. Her next role was not so small. She played the Spanish Infanta Maria Theresa in Hallmark Channel television movie La Femme Musketeer (2004), ...
16. Jim Zulevic
Actor | Matchstick Men
Jim Zulevic was born on February 20, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Matchstick Men (2003), The Specials (2000) and Let's Go to Prison (2006). He died on January 7, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
17. Mira Furlan
Actress | Babylon 5
A leading actress of theatre, film and TV in the former Yugoslavia, Mira Furlan emigrated to the U.S. with her husband, Goran Gajic, in November 1991, due to the intolerable political circumstances in her homeland. Ms. Furlan starred in the Warner Brothers TV series Babylon 5 (1993) as "Ambassador ...
18. Frank Gorshin
Actor | 12 Monkeys
Frank John Gorshin, Jr. was born on April 5, 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father was a railroad worker and his mother, Frances (Preseren), was a seamstress. His family was originally from Novo Mesto, Slovenia. While in high school, young Frank worked as an usher at the Sheridan Square ...
19. Mara Omaljev
Actress | Jared McMulligan
Marija Omaljev-Grbic, also known as Mara Omaljev, is known for Ruza Vjetrova (2011), Lud Zbunjen Normalan (2007-2019) and Halima's Path (2012). Marija was interested in art, poetry, acting, painting and writing since childhood. Her first performance was in the Elementary school when she was in ...
20. Michael Klesic
Actor | Children of Men
Michael Klesic was born on July 31, 1975 in Tarzana, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Children of Men (2006), The Fan (1996) and Outpost (2008). He was previously married to Jennifer Klesic and Emma Louise Tinniswood.
21. Anne Jackson
Actress | The Shining
Anne Jackson was born on September 3, 1925 in Millvale, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for The Shining (1980), Dirty Dingus Magee (1970) and CBS Playhouse (1967). She was married to Eli Wallach. She died on April 12, 2016 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
22. Branko Lustig
Production_manager | Gladiator
Branko Lustig was born on June 10, 1932 in Osijek, Croatia, Yugoslavia. He was a production manager and producer, known for Gladiator (2000), Schindler's List (1993) and The Saint (1997). He was married to Mirjana. He died on November 14, 2019 in Zagreb, Croatia.
23. Sylva Koscina
Actress | Le fatiche di Ercole
Sylva Koscina was born on August 22, 1933 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Zagreb, Croatia]. She was an actress, known for Hercules (1958), Hornets' Nest (1970) and Judex (1963). She was married to Raimondo Castelli. She died on December 26, 1994 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
24. Mark Matkevich
Actor | Sweet Home Alabama
Mark Matkevich was born on June 19, 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor, known for Sweet Home Alabama (2002), Dawson's Creek (1998) and Ed (2000).
25. Patrick Muldoon
Actor | Starship Troopers
William Patrick Muldoon III was born and raised in the Los Angeles waterfront town of San Pedro, California, the son of Deanna and William Patrick Muldoon II, a personal injury and maritime attorney. He has Irish and Croatian ancestry. His parents' artistic backgrounds, in painting, writing, and ...
26. Nikolina Pisek
Actress | Najbolje godine
Nikolina Pisek is a Croatian television presenter and actress. Teenage Nikolina gave modeling in Milan a brief try before returning home and enrolling in design studies at the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Architecture. Through her university studies, Pisek soon applied and got hired for a ...
27. Rick Rossovich
Actor | Top Gun
Rick Rossovich, considered one of the nicest people to work with, is also a devoted family man. He and his wife Eva have two kids, Roy and Isabel. For three months each year, the family lives at their home in Sweden, where Eva is from, so that the kids can have both sides of their parents' ...
28. Mary Alexandra Stiefvater
Actress | Supergator
Mary Alexandra Stiefvater was born in Chico, California and grew up in Stockton, where she was first introduced to theater and dance at a young age. Educated at The University of California at Los Angeles, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Theater, she also studied French cinema and ...
29. Tonko Soljan
Producer | Setup Squad
Tonko Soljan is a Croatian American film and television Producer and Production Head who has worked within development aspects of the broadcast medium all the way to delivering to major film festivals and television distributors. His recent projects include the hit television series "Teen Mom" on ...
30. Alicia Dea Josipovic
Actress | Degrassi: The Next Generation
Alicia Dea Josipovic can dance, act and sing. She was named after her 'Nonna' Dea, an accomplished fashion designer and opera singer.
At the age of five, she first began performing on stage as a dancer. Alicia danced competitively for eight years, winning numerous competitions. She also loved to ...
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