Marko Mandic
Marko Mandić (born June 8, 1974 in Slovenj Gradec ) is a Slovenian actor .
biography
Training and theater work
Marko Mandić was born in what was then the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia . From 1993 to 1998 he studied acting at the Academy for Theater, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) in Ljubljana and in 1997 he attended the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and HB Studio in New York , where he worked with Uta Hagen . After completing his acting training, Mandić became an ensemble member of the Slovenian National Drama Theater (SNG Drama) in Ljubljana. Since then he has appeared there in classical pieces by Euripides ( Iphigenie , 1998/99), Ibsen ( Ghosts , 2007), Racine ( Phèdre , 2003/04), Shakespeare ( Der Sturm , 1999/00; Othello , 2001/02; Wie you like it , 2002/03) and Chekhov ( Die Möwe , 2002/03; Platonow , 2010), as well as modern materials such as Trainspotting (1998/99), Hanif Kureishi's Outskirts (2002/03) or Martin Sperr's hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria ( 2010).
Success Mandic was granted in 2002, he called for his portrayal of Christian in Thomas Vinterberg's The Feast of the Jack Tinker in and for the Sarah Kane's Cleansed was first awarded the Slovenian Borštnik Award as the best theater actor of the year. He won the award three more times - in 2007 for Ivan Cankar's Romantic Souls and his Polybos in Ivo Svetina's Oedipus in Corinth , in 2008 for his Graf vom Strahl in Das Käthchen von Heilbronn and in 2009 for the title role of Macbeth based on Heiner Müller . Also in 2009, Mandić appeared in the solo performance Viva Mandić , in which his professional advancement is shown through video installations. In the same year he received the Prize of the Prešeren Foundation, a prestigious Slovenian artistic award.
Film and television career
Parallel to his work in the theater, Mandić has also appeared in Slovenian film and television productions since the mid-1990s, including Igor Šterk's internationally award-winning cinema debut Express, Express (1996). His first leading role in a feature film was Miran Zupaničs Barabe! (2001), in which he played the leader of a criminal gang alongside Katarina Stegnar. Other leading roles followed, including the television film Vladimir (2002), the short film Vlažnost 81% (2004) and Vinko Möderndorfer's feature film Pokrajina št. 2 (2008), in which Mandić plays a painting thief who is persecuted by his former teacher. In 2007 Mandić was awarded the Shooting Star Award at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival together with talented actors such as the German Maximilian Brückner or the French Mélanie Laurent .
Mandić first became known to a German television audience through Dror Zahavi's feature film Civil Courage (2010), in which he and Arnel Taci played an unscrupulous and orphaned pair of brothers from Kosovo . In the same year he appeared in Dominik Graf's In the face of crime (2010). In the critically acclaimed multi-part crime series, Mandić appeared as Joska Bodrov, a loyal Kapo of an Eastern European criminal brigade. The part brought him, together with the rest of the acting ensemble around Marie Bäumer , Mišel Matičević , Max Riemelt and Ronald Zehrfeld, the German Television Award in the category Special Achievement Fiction , while In the Face of the Crime was honored as the best multi-part series . From 2011 Mandić took on the recurring role of Matej Kos in the series Na terapiji with Igor Samobor in the lead role. This is a Slovenian version of the US series In Treatment - The Therapist .
Marko Mandić lives in Ljubljana. He is married to his fellow actor Pia Zemljič, who is a year younger than him .
Plays (selection)
| year | Play | role | stage |
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| 1995-1996 | The Indian Wants The Bronx | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 1995-1996 | Antigone | Academy for Theater, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) (Ljubljana) | |
| 1996-1997 | The Class Enemy | Academy for Theater, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) (Ljubljana) | |
| 1997-1998 | Bachanallia | Academy for Theater, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) (Ljubljana) PDG Nova Gorica (Nova Gorica) |
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| 1998-1999 | Iphigenia | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 1998-1999 | Vladimir | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 1998-1999 | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 1998-1999 | Trainspotting | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 1999-2000 | Family stories | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 1999-2000 | The storm | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 1999-2000 | Three Products Noordung | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 2001-2002 | Cassandra | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 2001-2002 | Far away | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 2001-2002 | The Fourth Sister | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 2001-2002 | Ursula | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 2001-2002 | Othello | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 2001-2002 | Cleaned | John Tinker | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) |
| 2001-2002 | The party | Christian | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) |
| 2001-2002 | Disco pigs | Glej Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 2002-2003 | The seagull | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 2002-2003 | Outskirts | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 2002-2003 | As you Like It | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 2003-2004 | In Search of Lost Time | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 2003-2004 | The Shape of Things | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 2003-2004 | Medea material | Mini Theater (Ljubljana) Cankarjev dom (Ljubljana) |
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| 2003-2004 | More | Via Negativa (Ljubljana) Gej Theater (Ljubljana) |
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| 2003-2004 | Phèdre | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 2004-2005 | march | Mini Theater (Ljubljana) HNK Ivan pl. Zajc (Rijeka) |
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| 2004-2005 | Alamut | Young Director's Project (Salzburg) | |
| 2004-2005 | The Karamazov brothers | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 2004-2005 | Tchrimekundan Or The Unblinded | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) | |
| 2005 | Would - Would Not | Via Negativa (Ljubljana) | |
| 2006 | Anna Karenina | Serpuhowskie | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) |
| 2006 | Disease of youth | Freder | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) |
| 2006 | Viva Verdi | Via Negativa (Ljubljana) HNK Zagreb (Zagreb) |
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| 2006 | Oedipus in Corinth | Polybos | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) |
| 2007 | Ghosts | Oswald | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) |
| 2007 | Romantic souls | Dr. Strings | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) |
| 2007 | The little girl from Heilbronn | Friedrich Wetter Graf vom Strahl | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) |
| 2008 | Vladimir | Aleš M. | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) |
| 2008 | The Conqueror | Balthazar | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) |
| 2008 | Just the end of the world | Louis | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) |
| 2009 | Macbeth | Macbeth | Mini Theater (Ljubljana) |
| 2009 | maw | ..., the one who ate his name | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) |
| 2009 | The way to Jajce | Peter | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) |
| 2009 | Sallinger | Al | Mini Theater (Ljubljana) Théâtre National de Bretagne (Rennes) |
| 2009 | Viva Mandić (solo performance) | Via Negativa (Ljubljana) | |
| 2009 | Roberto Zucco | Roberto Zucco | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) |
| 2010 | Ma & Al | Al | Mini Theater (Ljubljana) |
| 2010 | Platonov | Platonov | Slovenian National Drama Theater (Ljubljana) |
| 2010 | Hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria | People | PG Kranj (Kranj) |
Filmography (selection)
- 1996: Express, Express
- 1999: Ščetka (short film)
- 2001: Barabe!
- 2002: Vladimir (TV movie)
- 2004: Vlažnost 81% (short film)
- 2007: Vikend package
- 2008: Pokrajina št. 2
- 2009: Za konec časa
- 2010: Civil courage (TV film)
- 2010: In the Face of Crime (TV series)
- 2010: Neke druge priče
- 2010: Prepisani (TV series)
- 2011: Na terapiji (TV series)
- 2013: Lose Your Head (feature film)
- 2013: gold
- 2015: Naked among wolves
- 2016: At a short distance
- 2016: Alarm for Cobra 11 - The Autobahn Police (TV series)
- 2019: O Beautiful Night
Awards (selection)
- 1997: Prešeren Student Prize
- 2002: Borštnik Prize for Best Theater Actor for The Celebration (role: Christian) and Cleansed (John Tinker)
- 2002: Severjeva Prize
- 2007: Slovenian Shooting Star at the Berlin International Film Festival
- 2007: Borštnik Prize for Best Theater Actor for Romantic Souls (role: Dr. Strnen) and Oedipus in Corinth (Polybos)
- 2008: Borštnik Prize for Best Theater Actor for Das Käthchen von Heilbronn (role: Graf vom Strahl)
- 2009: Prešeren Prize for his acting roles over the past two years
- 2009: Borštnik Prize for Best Theater Actor for Macbeth (role: Macbeth)
- 2010: German TV Prize in the category Special Achievement Fiction for In the Face of the Crime (together with Marie Bäumer , Vladimir Burlakov , Alina Levshin , Mišel Matičević , Katharina Nesytowa , Max Riemelt and Ronald Zehrfeld )
- 2011: Judita Prize for the play Ma and Al
- 2012: Satir Prize for the play Ma and Al
Web links
- Agency profile of Marko Mandić
- Profile at daserste.de
- Marko Mandic in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Profile at drama.si (Slovenian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mandic, Marko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mandic, Marko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovenian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Slovenj Gradec , Yugoslavia |