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Mira Furlan
Mira Furlan
	; Furlan in 2008
Born	September 7, 1955 (age 54); Zagreb, FPR Yugoslavia (now Zagreb, Republic of Croatia)
Occupation	Actress
Spouse(s)	Goran Gajić
	Official website

Mira Furlan (born 7 September 1955) is a Croatian actress and singer currently residing in the United States. She is probably best known for her roles as the Minbari Ambassador Delenn on the science fiction television series Babylon 5, and Danielle Rousseau on Lost.

[edit] Early life

Furlan was born to an intellectual and academic family that included a large number of university professors in Zagreb, which was at that time part of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, now the capital city of the Republic of Croatia.^[1]

[edit] Career

Furlan was a member of the Croatian National Theatre and frequently appeared in Yugoslav television and films, including Cannes Film Festival winner When Father Was Away on Business (1985). In the 1980s, she briefly appeared as singer for Le Cinema, a spin-off from the rock band Film.

She has also appeared on the stage in New York and Los Angeles. She has released an album, Songs From Movies That Have Never Been Made. Furlan played Minbari Ambassador Delenn for all five seasons of Babylon 5 and some of the associated TV movies. Until recently she could be seen playing the character Danielle Rousseau in the ABC television series Lost.

Furlan is set to appear in the low-budget independent film Apology,^[2] which (as of November 2007) is in post-production.^[3] ^[4] This is her first major film role since she emigrated to the United States.

In 2002, she returned to Croatia after some 11 years to take the lead role in Rade Šerbedžija's Ulysses Theatre Company's production of Euripides' Medea. During mid-to-late 2000s she also had an irregular column in the now-defunct irreverent and iconoclastic Croatian magazine, Feral Tribune.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Personal life

Furlan's husband is director Goran Gajić, who has directed her in an episode of Babylon 5 and several plays, including a production of Sophocles' Antigone.^{[citation needed]}

In late 1991, she and her husband emigrated from the former Yugoslavia to escape the warfare which resulted in the breakup of former Yugoslavia, with the attendant political turmoil and ethnic tensions.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Family

Furlan was born in Zagreb to a Jewish mother and a father of Slovenian and Croatian extraction. Her husband is an ethnic Serb. She graduated from the Academy for Dramatic Arts in Zagreb and holds an equivalent to the BA in theatre.^[5]

On December 15, 1999, Mira Furlan gave birth to the couple's first child, Marko Lav Gajić.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Mira Furlan's website
Mira Furlan at the Internet Movie Database

[0] Interview with Hillel

[1] Long Tale Films site

[2] IMDb.com

[3] Zlatna.com^{[dead link]}

[4] Interview at Hillel, ibid.

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