تولد
April 7, 1982 in Berane, Montenegro, Yugoslavia
محل تولد
New York City , New York , USA
Marijana Jankovic is a Danish actress born in Montenegro. Jankovic is a highly respected actress in the Danish film industry, known for her work ethic and dedication to her roles. She graduated from the Danish National School of Theatre in 2006. Since then she has established herself as one of Denmark's most interesting and promising actresses on stage and screen. She landed her first role in a feature film in 2007 when she played Nina in Pernille Fischer Christensen's Dansen (2008), and the following year she played opposite Nikolaj Lie Kaas in Kandidaten (2008). For her performance in Christoffer Boe's meta-thriller Alting bliver godt igen (2010) she was nominated for a Danish Critics' Association Award. The same year she starred in the critically acclaimed and internationally recognized Beast (2011), also directed by Christoffer Boe, for which she won the award for Best Actress at Fantasia International Genre Film Festival. She also starred in Academy Award winning short Helium (2013), directed by Anders Walter. Recently she appeared in Max Kestner's QEDA (2017) and Lars von Trier's The House That Jack Built (2018). Marijana's television credits include Livvagterne (2009) (DR), Lulu & Leon (2009) (TV3), Rita (2012) (TV2), Norskov (2015) (TV2), and we have also seen her in Den som dræber (2011) (TV2), where she had the opportunity to play the rare role of a female serial killer. In the acclaimed series, Arvingerne (2014) (DR) she plays Emil's girlfriend, Camilla. The Serbian-born Jankovic is strong in accents and languages. To play the leading role in the Icelandic movie Vargur (2018), directed by Borkur Sigthorsson, Jankovic learned Icelandic and Polish for the shoot. Lately she worked in her mother tongue Serbo-Croatian in the Serbian film Pijavice (2019). In addition, she took her first step into directing with the autobiographical short film Maja (2018). - IMDb Mini Biography By: Maja Dueholm
