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    Posted: 13-May-2006 at 21:22
HOLLYWOOD Dreams



Ivana Milicevic was born in 1974 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. From a mixed Bosnian Croat-Bosniak family, she grew up in the city's sprawling northern suburbs, which were being built almost as fast as there were new citizens to populate them.

Although it is an era remembered with great nostalgia by Bosnians today, in reality these areas of Sarajevo were destitute until the city was awarded the Olympics in the late 1970s (to be held in 1984) and construction of Olympic villages and venues in northern Sarajevo began.

The Milicevic family could not wait that long. Their talented, vibrant, ambitious daughter - at just five years old - was already creating a fuss in the neighborhood with her improv performances and childish renditions of Yugoslav folk tunes. She wanted to be a singer, or a dancer, or an actress - and for that, her parents decided, they would go to America.

The Milicevic family settled in Michigan, amongst one of the largest Bosnian diaspora communities in the country. Little Ivana was enrolled in all sorts of after-school activities and never lost her attention-grabbing, 'give-me-the-spotlight' personality.

Once she finished highschool, she began acting and was - in Hollywood terms - an overnight 'B list' success. She won guest roles on hit television shows like Seinfeld, Felicity, Friends, and Nash Bridges. But television wasn't her dream - she wanted to be a proper, film actress - the kind of woman she'd seen in theatres in Sarajevo as a little girl.

She had no trouble. Her resume includes:

Jerry Maguire
The Big Brass Ring
Crazy Six
Postmortem
October 22
Enemy of the State
Love Stinks
Kiss the Sky
House on Haunted Hill
Head over Heels
Vanilla Sky
Imposter
Four Reasons
Mail Order Bride
Down with Love
Love Actually
Paycheck
Slipstream
In Her Shoes
Just Like Heaven
The Optimist
The Plague

And recently... the TV show Las Vegas.

Now little Ivana from Sarajevo has finally achieved a dream she confessed holding for years. She will be... *drumroll* ...a Bond girl.

"I've been getting these sorts of roles always, my accent, I don't know. This is the top, this is the icon of the characters I've played." - Ivana Milicevic.

Congratulations to Bosnia's first Bond Girl.




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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-May-2006 at 15:36
is she the same Ivana singing with Dino Merlim godinema? or she's just an actress?
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  Quote Mila Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-May-2006 at 21:22
That was Ivana Banfic, she's actually Croatian.
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  Quote morticia Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19-May-2006 at 14:09
Here's a Spanish actress who has done very well in Hollywood. Penelope Cruz, born April 28th, 1974 in Madrid, Spain. I find her rough spanish accent in American films very annoying, however.

Here's a website listing her credits.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004851/





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