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Bosnia and Herzegovina (Serbo-Croatian: Bosna i Hercegovina, Босна и Херцеговина; sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia) is a country in Southeast Europe, situated on the Balkan Peninsula. It borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to the north and southwest. In the south it has a 20 kilometres (12 miles) long coast on the Adriatic Sea, with the town of Neum being its only access to the sea. Bosnia has a moderate continental climate with hot summers and cold, snowy winters. In the central and eastern regions, the geography is mountainous, in the northwest it is moderately hilly, and in the northeast it is predominantly flat. Herzegovina, the smaller, southern region, has a Mediterranean climate and is mostly mountainous. Sarajevo is the capital and the largest city. The area has been inhabited since at least the Upper Paleolithic, but evidence suggests that during the Neolithic age, permanent human settlements were established, including those that belonged to the Butmir, Kakanj, and Vučedol cultures. After the arrival of the first Indo-Europeans, the area was populated by several Illyrian and Celtic civilizations. The ancestors of the South Slavic peoples that populate the area today arrived during the 6t... ()

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Anja Savcic(31)

Actress | Sarajevo (BA)

Anja Savcic ([ˈânːja ˈsɔvtɪt]; born 27 November 1992) is a Bosnian-Canadian actress known for her roles in Loudermilk, Big Sky, Ricky Stanicky, Nancy Drew, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and I Love You Beth Cooper.

Edin Hasanović(31)

Actor | Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA)

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Velibor Topic(54)

Actor | Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina (YU)

Velibor Topic was born in 1970 in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. He is an actor, known for Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and Outside the Wire (2021).

Goran Kostić(52)

Actor | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia (now Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Goran Kostić(born November 18, 1971) is a Serbian actor based in the United Kingdom. In 2007, he played the Polish builder Erek in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He has also had supporting roles in a number of Hollywood films. He was in Taken (2008), Of Gods and Men (2010), Captifs (2010), and In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011).

Emir Hadžihafizbegović(62)

Actor | Tuzla (BA)

Emir Hadžihafizbegović (Bosnian pronunciation: [ˈemir ˈhaʤiˈhafizˌbegovitɕ]; born 20 August 1961) is a Bosnian actor. Often regarded as one of the best actors from Bosnia and Herzegovina, he has appeared in over fifty films, including When Father Was Away on Business (1985), Remake (2003), Fuse (2003), Days and Hours (2004), The Border Post (2006), Grbavica (2006), Armin (2007), Vegetarian Cannibal (2012) and Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020). For his role as struggling husband and father Ivo in the drama film These Are the Rules (2014), Hadžihafizbegović was awarded the Best Actor or Actress Award at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. He was also nominated for a Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival for the same role. Hadžihafizbegović is an avid supporter and member of the Bosniak nationalist and conservative Party of Democratic Action.

Aleksandar Mikic

Actor | Tuzla (BA)

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Miraj Grbić(47)

Actor | Sarajevo (BA)

Miraj Grbić (born 17 July 1976) is a Bosnian–American film, television and theater actor.

Boro Stjepanović(77)

Actor | Vareš (BA)

Borislav "Boro" Stjepanović (born 8 May 1946) is a Bosnian film, theater and television actor. He has played in over 50 films since the 1960s, most notably in Sjećaš li se Doli Bel, Ko to tamo peva, Čudo neviđeno, Miris dunja, Kuduz, Gluvi barut, First Class Thieves, Oscar award winning Bosnian film No Man's Land and many others. Stjepanović has also appeared in many television series and sitcoms like Viza za budućnost, Tata i zetovi, Naša mala klinika (Serbian version) and Lud, zbunjen, normalan.

Nataša Ninković(51)

Actress | Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina (YU)

Natasa Ninkovic was born on July 22, 1972 in Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. She is an actress and producer, known for The Trap (2007), The Professional (2003) and Savior (1998). She is married to Nenad Sarenac. They have two children.

Emina Muftić(62)

Actress | Sarajevo / City of Sarajevo (BA)

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Branko Đurić(61)

Actor | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia (now Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Branko Đurić (Cyrillic: Бранко Ђурић; born 28 May 1962), also known by his nickname Đuro (Cyrillic: Ђуро), is a Bosnian actor, comedian, film director and musician, who lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Born and raised in Sarajevo, Đurić rose to prominence throughout Yugoslavia with the hit comedy series Top lista nadrealista during the 1980s. Đuro became something of an epitome for the Bosnian people, primarily due to his accent and slang. He was also one of the founding members of SCH and the frontman of the award-winning Sarajevo rock band Bombaj Štampa. In August 1992, several months into the Bosnian War, he moved to Slovenia where he has been residing ever since. He has starred in the Academy Award-winning film No Man's Land and has had supporting roles in numerous high-profile films, including The Smell of Quinces, Time of the Gypsies, Kuduz, Bal-Can-Can, In the Land of Blood and Honey and See You in Montevideo. He has also created the comedy series Naša mala klinika, which has spawned an entire franchise with Slovenian, Croatian and Serbian counterparts.

Zaim Muzaferija(† 80)

Actor | Visoko (BA)

Zaim Muzaferija (9 March 1923 – 5 November 2003) was a Bosnian film, television and stage actor, and poet. The magazine 6yka (Buka) called Muzaferija a "legend of Bosnian cinema."

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Amila Terzimehic(35)

Actress | Sarajevo (BA)

Amila Terzimehic was born on April 18, 1988 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is an actress.

Zijah Sokolović(73)

Actor | Sarajevo (BA)

Zijah Sokolović (born 22 December 1950) is a Bosnian actor, writer and director. He is the director of Theaterland in Salzburg, professor at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, artistic director of Dežela gledališča theatre in Ljubljana and artistic project leader for Dramatic society, Dramatično društvo, but also directs plays in Belgrade, Zagreb, Banja Luka and in his hometown of Sarajevo. Sokolović appeared in numerous films, including multiple award-winning Yugoslav and Bosnian films Silent Gunpowder, Remake and The Abandoned. He also voiced Mr. Ping in the Serbian dub of the Kung Fu Panda franchise.

Admir Glamočak(61)

Actor | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia (now Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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Tarik Filipović(52)

Actor | Zenica (BA)

Tarik Filipović (born 11 March 1972) is a Bosnian-Croatian television presenter and actor. He has appeared in over 800 theatre plays since his debut in 1985. He has also been in many films and TV dramas produced throughout the areas of former Yugoslavia. He presents quiz shows Tko želi biti milijunaš? (Croatia's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?) on Croatian Radiotelevision, and Potjera (Croatia's The Chase) on HRT1. In 2001, Filipović starred in Behind Enemy Lines as a Serbian soldier.

Džana Pinjo(41)

Actress | Sarajevo (BA)

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Boris Ler(39)

Actor | Sarajevo / City of Sarajevo (BA)

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Nele Karajlic(61)

Actor | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Nenad Janković (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Јанковић; pronounced [nênaːd jǎŋkoʋit͡ɕ]; born 11 December 1962), known as Dr Nele Karajlić (Serbian Cyrillic: Др Неле Карајлић), is a Yugoslav and Bosnian Serb musician, composer, comedian, actor, writer and television director living and working in Belgrade, Serbia. One of the founders of the New Primitivism cultural movement in his hometown of Sarajevo, he was also the lead singer and co-author for one of former Yugoslavia's best known bands, Zabranjeno Pušenje (No Smoking). Karajlić also co-created and participated in TV shows Top lista nadrealista (The Surrealist Hit Parade) and Složna braća. During the Bosnian War, he moved to Belgrade where he formed one of two descendant factions of Zabranjeno Pušenje. That splinter of the band was joined by filmmaker Emir Kusturica, and renamed it The No Smoking Orchestra.

Dejan Aćimović(60)

Actor | Čapljina (BA)

Dejan Aćimović (1963) is a Bosnian-Croatian actor and film director. He was born in Čapljina, SFR Yugoslavia, now Bosnia and Herzegovina. As an actor, his work included principal and supporting roles in numerous films, both within and outside Croatia. His directorial debut was Je li jasno, prijatelju? (2000), for which he also won a Golden Arena Award as a supporting actor at the Pula Film Festival.

Zinaid Memišević(† 72)

Actor | Sarajevo (BA)

Zinaid "Miki" Memišević (zi'naid 'miki me'miʃevit͡ʃ; 26 April 1950 – 7 January 2023) was a Bosnian and Serbian theatre and film actor. Born in 1950 in Sarajevo, he lived and worked in Vancouver, Canada.

Semka Sokolović-Bertok(† 72)

Actress | Sarajevo (BA)

Semka Sokolović-Bertok (22 December 1935 – 4 March 2008) was a Bosnian and Croatian actress. She also was a competitive chess player in her youth, winning the Croatian Chess Juniors Championship eight times.

Davor Dujmović(† 29)

Actor | Sarajevo (BA)

Davor Dujmović (20 September 1969 – 31 May 1999) was a Yugoslavian actor best known for his memorable roles in Emir Kusturica's movies as Mirza in When Father Was Away on Business, Perhan in Time of the Gypsies and Bata in Underground.

Jasmin Geljo(64)

Actor | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina

Jasmin Geljo was born on September 18, 1959 in Sarajevo. He is an actor and director, known for Assault on Precinct 13 (2005), Cube Zero (2004) and Land of the Dead (2005).

Tatjana Šojić(59)

Actress | Sarajevo (BA)

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Mediha Musliović(49)

Actress | Sarajevo (BA)

Mediha Musliovic was born in 1975 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. She is an actress.

Adem Čejvan(† 62)

Actor | Banja Luka (BA)

Adem Čejvan (2 March 1927 – 5 November 1989) was a Bosnian actor.

Goran Bregović(74)

Crew | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia [now Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina]

Goran Bregović (born 22 March 1950) is a recording artist from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Slavic-speaking countries in the Balkans, and is one of the few former Yugoslav musicians who has performed at major international venues such as Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall and L'Olympia. A Sarajevo native, Bregović started out with Kodeksi and Jutro, but rose to prominence as the main creative mind and lead guitarist of Bijelo Dugme, widely considered one of the most popular and influential recording acts ever to exist in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. After Bijelo Dugme split up, he embarked on several critically and commercially successful projects, and started composing film scores. Among his better known film scores are three of Emir Kusturica's films (Time of the Gypsies, Arizona Dream and Underground). For Time of the Gypsies, Bregović won a Golden Arena Award at the Pula Film Festival in 1990, among other awards. He had also composed for the Academy Award-nominated film La Reine Margot and the Cannes-entered film The Serpent's Kiss. Bregović, during his five-decade long career, has composed for critically acclaimed singers, including Sezen Aksu, Kayah, Iggy Pop, Šaban Bajramović, George Dalaras and Cesária Évora.

Mirsad Tuka(† 57)

Actor | Tuzla (BA)

Mirsad Tuka (19 June 1965 – 11 July 2023) was a Bosnian actor. He made his film debut in the comedy-drama Holiday in Sarajevo (1991). He had since appeared in films such as Remake (2003), All for Free (2006), Cirkus Columbia (2010), The Abandoned (2010), Body Complete (2012), Ja sam iz Krajine, zemlje kestena (2013) and Take Me Somewhere Nice (2019). Tuka also appeared in television series Složna braća (1996), Zabranjena ljubav (2005–2007) and, most notably, Lud, zbunjen, normalan (2008–2021) as police inspector Murga.

Stribor Kusturica

Actor | Sarajevo / City of Sarajevo (BA)

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