Rade Šerbedžija

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Rade Šerbedžija (born 27 July 1946), occasionally credited as Rade Sherbedgia in some English-language productions, is a Croatian actor, director and musician.

He is known for his portrayals of imposing figures on both sides of the law.

He was one of the most popular Yugoslav actors in the 1970s and 1980s.

He is internationally known mainly for his supporting roles in Hollywood films such as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, X-Men: First Class, The Saint, In the Land of Blood and Honey, Mission: Impossible 2; his role as Boris the Blade in Snatch; and for his recurring role as former Soviet Army General Dmitri Gredenko in Season 6 of TV action series 24.

Early life

Šerbedžija was born in the village of Bunić in the Lika region of Croatia, then part of Yugoslavia. His parents were ethnic Serbs who fought in the Second World War as Partisans. Šerbedžija was raised an atheist.

Personal life

Šerbedžija married Ivanka Cerovac in 1969. They have a son, film director Danilo (b. 1971), and a daughter, actress Lucija (b. 1973). The couple divorced in 1987.

Šerbedžija met his second wife, Lenka Udovički, the sister of Serbian politician Kori Udovički, in Subotica in 1990 and they married in 1991. With his second wife, he has three daughters: Nina, Vanja, and Mimi. The girls grew up in London during their early years, then moved to California due to their father's acting career.

Šerbedžija's parents left Vinkovci as Serb refugees for Belgrade in 1991, due to the Croatian War of Independence.

In 1992, while at a club in Belgrade, an intoxicated youth swore at Šerbedžija, calling him "Serb traitor", then shot his gun in the air. The youth himself was from Lika, as was Šerbedžija. Šerbedžija took his wife and at the time, only daughter Nina, and left Zagreb and Belgrade, and settled in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Šerbedžija has called himself "Yugo-nostalgic", and in 2011, said that times were better in Socialist Yugoslavia than now. Šerbedžija owns property in London, Hollywood, California, Rijeka, and Zagreb. As of January 2011, he reportedly spends most of his time in Rijeka together with his wife Lenka.

Šerbedžija is a citizen of Croatia, North Macedonia, and Slovenia.

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Career in Yugoslavia

He graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts of Zagreb in 1969 and spent time as a theatre actor in the City Drama Theatre Gavella and the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. Erbedija's debut in film and theatre performances as an undergraduate. Oedipus and Richard III were two of his stage appearances. Hamlet's 1974 appearance in Dubrovnik brought him into fame.

In the Branko Ivanda-directed Gravitation, Erbedija scored his first major film role in 1968. He appeared in numerous important Yugoslav films, including some in Bravo maestro (1978), Banovi Strahinja (1982), and San o ru (1986). He appeared in Prosjaci i sinovi (1971), U registraturi (1976), and Putovanje u Vujanj (1986).

Erbedija served as a professor at the University of Zagreb from 1979 to 1981, as well as at the University of Novi Sad from 1987 to 1991.

Erbedija was one of Yugoslavia's most well-known celebrities, in addition to being one of the country's most popular people. erbedija had appeared in more than 40 films before leaving his home country. He was also one of the leading supporters of the KGPT Yugoslav theater, a initiative that was designed to unite the various Yugoslav state theaters into a cohesive troupe.

Erbedija is a four-time winner of the Golden Arena for Best Actor at the Pula Film Festival; in 1986 for Evening Bells (Veernja dana), Fishing and Fishermen's Discussions (2020).

Borisslav Vujij founded the Ulysses Theater on the Brijuni islands in 2000. The Zoran Radmilovi Award, the Croatian Theatre Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the Orlando Award were given to a co-production by the Ulysses Theatre and the National Theatre in Belgrade.

International career

As Yugoslavia's civil war came to an end, she migrated to Serbia in 1992 and Slovenia before spending some time in London, England, at the invitation of actor and friend Anthony Andrews. Erbedija met with Macedonian-American director Milcho Manchevski, who played him in his 1994 film Before the Rain. At the Venice Film Festival, he was given the Critics Award for Best Actor.

Erbedija appeared in two films that were released in the West prior to leaving Yugoslavia; Hanna's War (1988) and Manifesto (1989).

There have been supporting roles in Hollywood films such as Mission: Impossible 2, Mighty Joe Young, The Saint, Eyes Wide Shut, Snatch, and Space Cowboys, among others. He is most well-known for playing villains.

He appeared in Batman Begins as he was expected to reprise his comeo role in The Dark Knight, but he declined.

Emile de Becque, a French plantation owner, appeared in a television production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical South Pacific in 2001. He also appeared in one episode of Spooks as a villain on BBC spy show Spooks. He appeared in Captain Blake's remake of The Fog in Rupert Wainwright's revision of The Fog in 2005 and had a supporting role in the NBC science fiction film Surface. In Jeremy Podeswa's feature film version of Anne Michaels' novel Fugitive Pieces, he appeared at Athos Roussos in 2007.

He was nominated for a Genie Award and a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2007 for his role in the Canadian film Fugitive Pieces (2007).

On the sixth season of the hit Fox show 24, he played Dmitri Gredenko.

erbedija appeared in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 as the renowned foreign wandmaker Gregorovitch in 2009. Prince Kuragin, a Russian exile and long-agogo lover of the Dowager Countess Violet Crawley, was portrayed by Dame Maggie Smith in six episodes of Downton Abbey in 2014.

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