1. Mira Furlan was a Croatian-American actress and singer.
19 Facts About Mira Furlan
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Mira Furlan was born to Branka Weil, a mother who was of Jewish-Serbian descent, and Ivan Furlan, a father of Slovene- Croat descent.
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Mira Furlan graduated from the Academy for Dramatic Arts in Zagreb with Bachelor of Fine Arts in theatre.
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Mira Furlan was a member of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb and frequently appeared in Yugoslav television and films.
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Mira Furlan played Ankica Vidmar in the film When Father Was Away on Business, which won the Palme d'Or at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Mira Furlan became a member of the Actors Studio in 1992 after moving to New York City to flee turmoil in Yugoslavia.
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Mira Furlan appeared on the stage in New York City and Los Angeles.
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Mira Furlan played the central ensemble role of Minbari Ambassador Delenn for all five seasons of Babylon 5, and some of the associated TV movies.
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Mira Furlan was featured as a vocalist on two tracks on the 1983 album, "Nevino srce" by Slovenian rock band, Buldozer.
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Mira Furlan sang in the band, The Be Five, which produced a single album in 1998, Trying to Forget.
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Mira Furlan wrote the play Until Death Do Us Part, which is set in 1970s Zagreb.
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Mira Furlan chose to write her autobiography in English: Love Me More than Anything in the World: Stories about Belonging.
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Mira Furlan's husband was director Goran Gajic, who is an ethnic Serb.
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Mira Furlan directed her in an episode of Babylon 5 and in several plays, including a production of Sophocles' Antigone.
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Mira Furlan was active in the Yugoslav feminist movement in the 1980s.
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Twice a month during the late 1980s, Mira Furlan made the three-hour commute between Zagreb and Belgrade, where her husband was based, to act in theater productions in both cities.
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Mira Furlan wrote a public letter expressing her deep disappointment over the behaviour of her fellow citizens and colleagues and the threats of the nationalists against her.
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Mira Furlan gave birth to the couple's only child, Marko Lav, in 1998.
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Mira Furlan died at her home in Los Angeles on January 20,2021, at the age of 65, having suffered from complications of West Nile fever in the time leading up to her death.