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Mira Furlan

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Biography

Recent Role:
Maria Olsen on Law & Order: Los Angeles
Gender:
Female
Born:
9-7-1955
Birthplace:
Zagreb, Croatia (ex Yugoslavia)
Birth Name:
Mira Furlan
AKA:
Mira Furlan
Mira Furlan was born in Yugoslavia, and became one of that nation's leading actresses in stage, film, and television. She was called "the Meryl Streep of Yugoslavia". During the Wars of Yugoslavian Succession, she, born in Zagreb and married to a Serb (director Goran Gajic), did her best to oppose a war in which neighbors were killing each other, and, in her professional life, to ignore it, appearing in theatre productions in both Zagreb and Belgrade. The result was a terrible media campaign to vilify her, culminating in repeated death threats. In 1991 she and her husband came to the USA asMore refugees.

After a little television and theatre work, she was cast in the role of Ambassador Delenn in "Babylon 5" in 1992. Soon after "Babylon 5" ended production in 1998, she and her husband became the parents of Marko.

In 2002 through 2005, she returned to Croatia to perform in a production of "Medea" with the Ulysses Theatre Company on the island of Mali Brijuni. In 2004, she made her return to Belgrade to film a movie entitled "Disi duboko". But she now regards herself as an American whose "old country" was Yugoslavia, a nation that no longer exists.

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  • Mira Furlan - Upcoming Convention Appearances as at July 25th, 2006

        August 3 ~ 6, 2006 Shadowcon 11 Oslo, Norway http://www.shadowcon.no/ September 1~4, 2006 Dragon*Con Atlanta, Georgia http://www.dragoncon.org/ October 21~23, 2006 Armageddon Pulp Culture Expo Aucklund, New Zealand More http://www.pulpexpo.com/ October 27~29, 2006 SuperNova Pop Culture Expo Sydney, Australia http://www.supanova.com.au/ November 25~26, 2006 Mid-Ohio-Con Columbus, Ohio http://www.midohiocon.com August 2 ~ 5, 2007 Archon 31 ~ The 9th NASFiC Collinsville, Illinois (St. Louis, Missouri area) http://www.archonstl.org/31/ http://www.zlatna.com/celebration/mcon.html

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    I've only seen her on Babylon 5, but she was one of my favorite actresses for quite some time. I loved her character, Delenn. She was so wonderful at showing compassion and still being a good, hard leader. I loved how she pulled this off, and being an alien as complex as Delenn, it must have been difficult. She did such a wonderful job of playing the religious character, and not making it seem too fake. I'm sure that was not an easy task, as she had only the scripts and Joe's vision to go off of. It seems hard to play an alien when you don't have any to model your actions after.

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