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Place of birth Sibenik, Croatia, Yugoslavia
Year of debut 1988
At 18, Goran Visnjic joined the Croatian army as a paratrooper. He then studied at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. He was spotted by Michael Winterbottom in a production of Hamlet at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival. In 1997 he reached an international audience in Winterbottom’s Welcome To Sarajevo. A producer from the TV series ER spotted him in the movie Practical Magic. He acted in ER from 1999 to 2008. He has since starred in a range of movies from Elektra to Beginners.
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£2.50U Certificate 2002 77 MinsAnimated. A sabre tooth tiger (Denis Leary), a sloth (John Leguizamo) and a woolly mammoth (Ray Romano) try to return a baby to its family. Suitable for all.
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£2.4912 Certificate 1998 99 MinsTwo cursed witches (Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman) are unlucky in love. Contains infrequent, moderate language and horror.
Did you know?
- Goran Visnjic jumped out of a plane over 13 times with the Blue Angels, a US Navy acrobatic group.
- He voiced the character Soto in the animated movie Ice Age.
- In 1998, he appeared in Madonna's music video for The Power Of Goodbye.
- His character in Practical Magic was originally meant to be Texan. However after director Griffin Dune saw him in Welcome to Sarajevo and Madonna's music video, he re-wrote the character to be Eastern European.
- He married Ivana Vrdoljak, a sculptor, in 1999. They have a child together.
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