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Mira Furlan

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Mira Furlan (7 September 1955 – 20 January 2021) was a Croatian-American actress and singer. Internationally, she was best known for her roles as the Minbari Ambassador Delenn in the science fiction television series Babylon 5 (1993–1998), and as Danielle Rousseau in Lost (2004–2010), and also appeared in multiple award-winning films such as When Father Was Away on Business (1985) and The Abandoned (2010).

Early lifeEdit

Furlan was born on 7 September 1955 to an intellectual and academic family that included a large number of university professors in Zagreb, PR Croatia,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> which at the time was one of the six constituent republics of Yugoslavia. She was born to Branka Weil, a mother who was of Jewish-Serbian descent, and Ivan Furlan, a father of Slovene- Croat descent.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="autogenerated1">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="hillel">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="jweekly">Template:Cite news</ref>

As a child, Furlan was obsessed with American rock and roll music.<ref name=Harris19921018 /> She became interested in acting as a teenager.<ref name=Harris19921018 />

Furlan graduated from the Academy for Dramatic Arts in Zagreb with Bachelor of Fine Arts in theatre.<ref name="hillel"/> Simultaneously, she took language classes at the university's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, becoming fluent in English, German, and French.<ref name=Harris19921018 />

CareerEdit

ActingEdit

Furlan was a member of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb<ref name=Harris19921018 /> and frequently appeared in Yugoslav television and films.<ref name="imdb">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She 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.<ref name=Harris19921018 /> In the late 1980s, she performed in theater productions in both Zagreb and Belgrade.<ref name=Harris19921018 />

Furlan became a member of the Actors Studio in 1992 after moving to New York City to flee turmoil in Yugoslavia.<ref name=Harris19921018>Template:Cite news</ref> Later that year, her theater contacts in the U.S. helped her get the necessary work permits to perform with the Indiana Repertory Theatre as the lead role in Yerma.<ref name=Harris19921018 />

She appeared on the stage in New York City and Los Angeles. She played the central ensemble role of Minbari Ambassador Delenn for all five seasons of Babylon 5, and some of the associated TV movies. Between 2004 and 2010 she played the recurring role of Danielle Rousseau on Lost. In 2009, she appeared on an episode of NCIS, titled "South By Southwest".<ref name="imdb"/>

In 2002, she returned to Croatia after eleven years to take the lead role in Rade Šerbedžija's Ulysses Theatre Company's production of Euripides' Medea.<ref name=Lilith20160912>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="imdb" />

SingingEdit

In the 1980s, Furlan briefly appeared as singer for Le Cinema, a spin-off from the rock band, Film.<ref name=Popboks20080304>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She was also featured as a vocalist on two tracks on the 1983 album, "Nevino srce" ("Innocent Heart") by Slovenian rock band, Buldožer.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> In 1998, she released an album, Songs From Movies That Have Never Been Made.<ref name=Popboks20080304 /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Furlan also sang in the band, The Be Five, which produced a single album in 1998, Trying to Forget.

WritingEdit

Furlan wrote the play Until Death Do Us Part (Template:Langx), which is set in 1970s Zagreb.<ref name=botoks20181109>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A collection of her columns in the now-defunct Croatian magazine Feral Tribune was published as the book Totalna rasprodaja in 2010.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Furlan chose to write her autobiography in English: Love Me More than Anything in the World: Stories about Belonging. The book is not only a self-portrait of the actress, but also a picture of the disintegration of the Yugoslavian country and its moral values.

Personal lifeEdit

Furlan's husband was director Goran Gajić,<ref name=Harris19921018 /> who is an ethnic Serb.<ref name="hillel"/><ref name="jweekly"/> He directed her in an episode of Babylon 5 and in several plays, including a production of Sophocles' Antigone.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Furlan was active in the Yugoslav feminist movement in the 1980s.<ref name=Lilith20160912 />

Twice a month during the late 1980s, Furlan made the three-hour commute between Zagreb and Belgrade, where her husband was based, to act in theater productions in both cities.<ref name=Harris19921018 /> After the Croatian War of Independence began in 1991, she was fired by the Croatian National Theater for refusing to quit acting in a Belgrade theater production.<ref name=Harris19921018 /> An ensuing public smear campaign turned her colleagues and friends against her as she received threatening messages on her answering machine.<ref name=Harris19921018 /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>Mira Furlan – A Letter to my Co-Citizens (Memento of 11 December 2012 in Internet Archive)</ref> The couple left in November 1991, in the early days of the breakup of Yugoslavia, emigrating to New York City.<ref name=Harris19921018 />

Furlan gave birth to the couple's only child, Marko Lav, in 1998.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

DeathEdit

Furlan died at her home in Los Angeles on January 20, 2021,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> at the age of 65, having suffered from complications of West Nile fever in the time leading up to her death.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Upon her death, theater director Ivica Buljan of the Croatian National Theater issued an apology on behalf of the theater for their treatment of Furlan in the early 1990s.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A week later, Croatian weekly Globus issued another apology for publishing three feuilletons attacking the actress in 1992 that had an essential role in the public-smear campaign.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

AwardsEdit

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Selected filmographyEdit

Film
Year Title Role Notes Ref
1985 Horvatov izbor Eva Horvatek <ref name=BFI/>
1985 When Father Was Away on Business Ankica Vidmar <ref name="TVG Filmography"/>
1986 The Beauty of Vice Jaglika <ref name="TVG Filmography"/>
1988 Brothers by Mother Vranka <ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name=BFI/>
1988 El Camino del Sur Bessi <ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name=BFI/>
2008 The Tour Sonja <ref name="TVG Filmography"/>
2010 Cirkus Columbia Lucija citation CitationClass=web

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2010 The Abandoned Cica <ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2013 Twice Born Velida citation CitationClass=web

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2014 With Mum Jasna <ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2020 Pred nama Jovana Short
2021 Burning at Both Ends Agnes Posthumous release
2021 SAVA Sava (voice)
2024 Space Command Redemption Vonn Odara
TV
Year Title Role Notes Ref
1990–1991 Bolji život Finka Pašalić Guest: 8 episodes <ref name="BBC Serb">Template:Cite news</ref>
1993–1998 Babylon 5 Delenn Main role <ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1997 Spider-Man: The Animated Series Silver Sable voice <ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2004–2010 Lost Danielle Rousseau Recurring Role (Season 1–4)
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2008 Vratiće se rode Jagoda Guest: 8 episodes citation CitationClass=web

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2009 NCIS Dina Risi "South by Southwest", Season 6, Episode 17 <ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
2010 Najbolje godine Violeta Guest (Season 2): 25 episodes citation CitationClass=web

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2016 Vere i zavere Lizaveta Rudić Main role: 12 episodes citation CitationClass=web

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2016-2017 Just Add Magic The Traveller 6 episodes <ref name="TVG Filmography"/>
2020 Just Add Magic: Mystery City The Traveller "Just Add Volume"
2020 Space Command Vonn Odara/Evelynn 'Vonn' Odara 5 episodes
2021 Arcane Babette voice, posthumous release
Video Games
Year Title Role Notes
2015 Payday 2 The Butcher<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Voice and likeness, also appeared in live action trailer
2020 Beyond Blue Irina
2020 Mafia: Definitive Edition Additional Voices

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