- Height6′ 4″ (1.93 m)
- Ivan Kraljevic was born in Kotor Montenegro on August 13th 1975. He is the son of a Croatian sea captain and Montenegrian banker mother. In 1979 Kotor was shook by a 6.9 earthquake, Ivan survived only because his mom took him out of his bed moments before the stone wall collapsed on on it. Ivan was raised by his maternal great-grandmother, Stana, while both his parents worked. Stana was instrumental in igniting Ivan's love for storytelling. Each night before bedtime she would share stories from her lifetime; she had seen two world wars and countless armies march through their city of Kotor. Stana passed on lessons of true value and human nature to Ivan. In 1991 when the civil war broke out in Yugoslavia Stana was ready with fifty kilo bags of sugar and flour each. Ivan spent his formative years learning English and Italian by watching movies and dreaming about making his own. In January of 1992 at the age of sixteen, Ivan had to move to the United States as a high school exchange student to avoid being drafted into both the Croatian and Serbian armies, which were in conflict with each other at the time. Ivan had friends and relatives on all three sides of the war. America, along with the help of the Milicevic family, became the nurturing home to replace the one he had just lost. The early tales from his great-grandmother, the journey out of conflict and finding his way in the United States gave Ivan fuel for his lifelong love of filmmaking and storytelling. Ivan joined the Directors Guild in 1999, he has won multiple awards and festivals for his Directing work. With over one hundred projects completed in various capacities and Directing his first feature film "The Harvesting". Ivan is developing various projects to Produce and Direct.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Unknown
- SpousesElena Nikitina Bick(March 12, 2011 - March 4, 2018) (divorced)Susan Featherly(July 2002 - March 2007)Alessandra Hess(June 2000 - June 2002)
- As a child, at the age of twelve, Ivan would spend the summer afternoons watching an American production company filming "The Dark Side of the Sun" in his home town of Kotor. His interest and passion for the filming process was recognized by the assistant director who even gave him a walkie talkie on some occasions to help with crowd control. Ivan among the other local kids became friends and often went swimming with the cast and dolphin "Joca", a wild dolphin that came into the bay of Kotor one day and stayed for years becoming a part of the community. One young skinny and friendly American actor was always there and enjoyed playing with "Joca" and swimming with the local kids, he went on to become a film star and opened Ivan's mind to the possibility and reaching for the dream of making movies. The skinny actor with a big smile is Brad Pitt.
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