Goran Visnjic

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Goran Visnjic Wiki Biography

Goran Visnjic was born on September 9, 1972 in Sibenik, Croatia, Yugoslavia. He is an actor and producer, known for ER (1994), Ice Age (2002) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). He has been married to Eva (formerly Ivana) Vrdoljak since May 8, 1999. They have three children. IMDB Wikipedia $2 million 1972 1972-9-9 6′ 4″ (1.93 m) Actor Beginners (2010) Croatia ER (1994) Goran Visnjic Goran Višnjić Net Worth Ice Age (2002) producer September 9 Šibenik Soundtrack The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) Virgo Yugoslavia

Goran Visnjic Quick Info

Full Name Goran Višnjić
Net Worth $2 Million
Date Of Birth September 9, 1972
Place Of Birth Sibenik, Croatia, Yugoslavia
Height 6′ 4″ (1.93 m)
Profession Actor, Producer, Soundtrack
Education University of Zagreb
Spouse Ivana Vrdoljak
Children Lana Lourdes Rupic, Vigo Višnjic, Tin Višnjic, Vivien Višnjic
Parents Željko Višnjic, Milka Višnjic
Siblings Joško Višnjić
Instagram http://www.instagram.com/goran_visnjic
IMDB http://imdb.com/name/nm899681
Awards Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Performance
Nominations Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Drama
Movies Ice Age, Elektra, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Practical Magic, Beginners, The Deep End, K-11, The Counselor, Welcome to Sarajevo, The Journey Home, The Peacemaker, Long Dark Night, The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, Spartacus, Rounders, Helen, The Last Will, Dark Hearts, Doctor Sleep, Night…
TV Shows Extant, Red Widow, The Deep, ER, Timeless

Goran Visnjic Quotes

  • After singing stop the war in Croatia for a couple of months we realized nobody was going to give us a hand and we had to do this on our own.
  • Several years ago I saw a video of a seal hunt in Canada and was shocked. I just couldn’t believe that sort of thing was still happening in the 21st century. But it was. The way seals are killed is so inhumane. They’re clubbed then pulled across the ice with big hooks. I mean, I have a pretty strong stomach from being on ER all these years, but it still disgusts me. Once you see a video like that it’s really hard to sit on the sidelines and say “Who cares.”
  • I was happy to do it when I saw the chance of helping out the local theatre scene … I am delighted to be able to help the theatres where I grew up and learned my profession. I have never forgotten my past.
  • This cute woman walked into my favourite bar in Gavella, Croatia, about 5 years ago. When I saw her I said “Uh-oh, that’s it”. But I was shy, so I didn’t ask her out until a couple of days later, when I finally found someone who knew her phone number.
  • Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it’s getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence.
  • ER is a pretty big deal in Croatia. When my agent called and told me about this show, I said, ‘Are we talking about the same ER?’ And I thought about it for half a second and then said, ‘Yes, of course!’ I was watching them in Croatia when I was still at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, and now I’m working with them.
  • I would really like to do theatre in my native language because that would be like so relaxed after ER … English … those medical words!
  • The first time I came here it was 10 days, then 15 days, then three months. Now this time I have to stay to April. I’m slowly getting stuck here and I miss Europe.
  • I don’t understand the word ‘hunk.'” – “Calgary Sun, ” Jan. 30, 2000.
  • “Every time I perform, I work really hard to give part of myself to the audience. Then I do an interview and I read some story that just isn’t true, or someone draws a crazy conclusion about my life, and it’s such a betrayal. It hasn’t happened here, but in Croatia, I’ve had to stop reading about myself. I don’t think actors mean to be secretive – they just don’t want strangers looking through their kitchen window.” – on why he doesn’t give many interviews.
  • I’m working with a dialect coach, but it’s not helping. I want everyone to understand what I am talking about, like ‘peritoneal lavage’, you know, these medical expressions… I don’t want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller.
  • “When somebody is attacking your hometown, and you’re just sitting in the basement, you feel really useless. I felt I had to do it to defend my country. That’s normal.” – on why he extended his military service.

Goran Visnjic Important Facts

  • Goran’s nickname is Sime (pronounced SHIH-meh). It was given to him by his friend, actor Sasa Buneta while he was in drama school.
  • Starred in the 1999 Madonna music video ‘The Power Of Goodbye’.
  • In July 2013, Goran and Eva finalized the adoption of their third child, a daughter. Vivien Sofia Visnjic was born on 8-12-09.
  • Goran and Ivana joined almost 10,000 others participating in the May 23, 2013 Naturalization and Oath Swearing ceremony in Los Angeles, thus becoming US Citizens. At the same time, Ivana officially changed her name to Eva.
  • On 7/7/11, Goran and his wife Ivana welcomed their second son into their family. Vigo Leo Visnjic arrived earlier than expected at 8.8lbs, and 19.5in by caesarean section to a surrogate mother. The news was released through Bleu Profond 2: A Goran Visnjic website and in the 7/13/11 issue of Story magazine in Croatia.
  • Tin Visnjic, Goran and Ivana’s son, is named after Augustin Tin Ujevic, who is considered to be one of the greatest Croatian poets of all time.
  • Daughter, Lana Lourdes Rupic, born March 21, 2007. Mother is Mirela Rupic. Goran accepted paternity in November 2007.
  • His last name was derived of both Croatian and Serbian word “visnja”, which means cherry. Therefore Visnjic means “of the cherry”.
  • Adopted a baby boy born 19 April 2007 in Los Angeles, California. They have named him Tin Visnjic.
  • Ranked #1 in Croatian Internet IskonPortal Magazine’s “Top 10 Sexiest Croatian Movie Stars of 2005” list. (January, 2005)
  • Ranked #18 in Croatian-based monthly film magazine “Hollywood” in «Best Croatian Male Movie Stars of All Time» list. (November 2005)
  • He is a huge fan of the series Stargate SG-1 (1997).
  • Graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. Dated actress Lucija Serbedzija (daughter of Rade Serbedzija) for four years while they were there.
  • Croatian citizen.
  • On June 19, 2005 he received Croatia’s highest cultural honor, the Vladimir Nazor award for “Best Realization of a Theatrical Performance Film” for his performance in the Pula Film Festival award-winning film, Duga mracna noc (2004). Each year the “Vladimir Nazor” is awarded to the nation’s top artists in the areas of: literature, music, painting and sculpture, theater, film and architecture. The awards ceremony took place at the Dverce Palace in Zagreb where the Minister of Culture handed out the awards.
  • Named “One of TV’s Sexiest Men” in June 5-11 2005 TV Guide.
  • Named as the Best Croatian actor in 2004 (for role in the movie Duga mracna noc (2004)) according to the votes of the famous Croatian newspaper “Vecernji list”.
  • Named as the Best Croatian actor in 2004 according to the votes of the visitors of internet magazines.
  • In a full-page article titled, “Goran Visnjic Dr. Do Good” in the February 2005 issue of In Style magazine, he announced his support for, and collaboration with, the IFAW’s (International Fund for Animal Welfare) efforts to save wildlife and the environment, by becoming a spokesperson for that organization’s efforts to protect whales and fur bearing seals.
  • May 26, 2002 – Donated 1000 pounds in prize money that he won on a Croatian quiz show, giving it to the country’s theatres. At the time, he had never been on a TV quiz show.
  • Wind surfs and practices kung fu.
  • Appeared in an anti-fur billboard campaign for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals with his dog, Bugsy, beginning in January 2003. The ads read: “If you wouldn’t wear your dog, please don’t wear any fur.” The campaign was PETA’s first in eastern Europe.
  • At age 18, he trained during peacetime for basic crowd control and as a paratrooper in the Yugoslavian People’s Army (YNA). He ended up fighting in Slovenia, which proclaimed independence, when the YNA was ordered to attack this now former republic within the federation Yugoslavia. When Goran’s tour of duty was done (by the time of his return, Croatia had declared its independence), the Serbian faction of the YNA was already fighting the Croatian faction in a civil war. He volunteered to join the new Croatian Army, breaking his promise to himself never to pick up a gun again.
  • When word came through that he had been accepted in the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, his brother volunteered to take his place in the Army so he could study his craft.
  • Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world [2000]
  • Is married to a Croatian sculptor named Ivana, daughter of film director Antun Vrdoljak.
  • Hobbies are fencing, swimming, and diving.
  • The youngest actor to be chosen for the coveted title role in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, he portrayed the doomed Prince for 6 years from 1993 to 2000, at the internationally acclaimed Dubrovnik Summer Theatre Festival in Croatia, winning several coveted Orlando Awards (the equivalent of the Tony Award). During an episode of “ER,” “Luka” demonstrated his expertise in the part of Hamlet, by reciting the, “To be or not to be,” soliloquy in Croatian. In the same episode, demonstrated his skill in one of his hobbies, by “Luka” fencing with “Carter.”
  • Trained at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb.
  • Last name is pronounced ‘VISH-nyich’
  • Named People magazine’s Sexiest Import (1999)
  • Has a large scar on his stomach from gastric ulcer surgery.
  • Father was a bus driver; mother worked in a food market.
  • The younger of two sons.

Goran Visnjic Filmography

Title Year Status Character Role
The Tribes of Palos Verdes 2017 completed Actor
You Were Never Here 2017 post-production S Actor
Timeless 2016-2017 TV Series Garcia Flynn Actor
Crossing Lines 2015 TV Series Marco Constante Actor
Extant 2014-2015 TV Series John Woods Actor
The Journey Home 2014/II Muktuk Actor
Asthma 2014 Ragen Actor
Dark Hearts 2014/I Armand Actor
95 Decibels 2013 Short ENT — Dr. Corry Actor
The Counselor 2013 Banker Actor
Red Widow 2013 TV Series Nicholae Schiller Actor
K-11 2012 Raymond Saxx Jr. Actor
BlackBoxTV 2012 TV Series The Chemist Actor
Pan Am 2011-2012 TV Series Niko Lonza Actor
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2011 Armansky Actor
Boston’s Finest 2010 TV Movie Angus Martin Actor
Leverage 2010 TV Series Damien Moreau Actor
The Deep 2010/I Short Samson Actor
Beginners 2010 Andy Actor
The Deep 2010 TV Mini-Series Samson Actor
Tito 2010 TV Series Andrija Hebrang Actor
Apocrypha 2009 Short Man Actor
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler 2009 TV Movie Stefan Zgrzembski Actor
Helen 2009 David Leonard Actor
ER 1999-2008 TV Series Luka Kovac Actor
Nasa mala klinika 2006 TV Series Man on the telephone Actor
Duga mracna noc 2005 TV Series Ivan Kolar Actor
Elektra 2005 Mark Miller Actor
Spartacus 2004 TV Movie Spartacus Actor
Duga mracna noc 2004 Ivan Kolar – Iva Actor
American Masters 2003 TV Series documentary Robert Capa Actor
Close Your Eyes 2002 Michael Strother Actor
Ice Age 2002 Soto (voice) Actor
Posljednja volja 2001 Bepo Stambuk Actor
The Deep End 2001 Alek ‘Al’ Spera Actor
Committed 2000/I Neil Actor
Practical Magic 1998 Jimmy Angelov Actor
Rounders 1998 Maurice Actor
Tesko je reci zbogom 1998 TV Movie Davor Actor
Puska za uspavljivanje 1997 Devetka – ‘9’ Actor
The Peacemaker 1997 Bazta Sergeant Actor
Welcome to Sarajevo 1997 Risto Bavic Actor
Olujne tisine 1895-1995 1997 TV Mini-Series Vladimir Vidric Actor
Prepoznavanje 1996 TV Movie Ivan Actor
Vidimo se 1995 TV Movie Maks Actor
Detonator II: Night Watch 1995 TV Movie U.N. Security Officer Actor
Michele alla guerra 1994 TV Movie Soldier Actor
Paranoja 1993 Short Actor
Braca po materi 1988 Ustasa terrorist Actor
Duga mracna noc 2005 TV Series producer Producer
Duga mracna noc 2004 producer Producer
Posljednja volja 2001 co-producer Producer
ER 2006 TV Series performer – 1 episode Soundtrack
Hollywood Today Live 2016 TV Series Himself Self
Satirikon 2016 TV Series Himself Self
The Talk 2014 TV Series Himself Self
The Insider 2014 TV Series Himself Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live! 2013 TV Series Himself – Guest Self
Good Day L.A. 2013 TV Series Himself Self
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: On Location – Sweden and Hollywood 2012 Video documentary Himself Self
The 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards 2012 TV Special Himself – Presenter Self
Previously On: E.R. 2009 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Searching for a Storm 2009 Documentary Himself Self
Stand Up to Cancer 2008 TV Movie Himself Self
The View 2001-2007 TV Series Himself Self
Late Night with Conan O’Brien 2001-2007 TV Series Himself Self
The Megan Mullally Show 2006 TV Series Himself Self
Port Town 2006 Documentary Himself Self
Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2004-2005 TV Series Himself Self
Ballbreakers 2005 TV Series Himself Self
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross 2005 TV Series Himself Self
The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards 2005 TV Special documentary Himself – Presenter: Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy Self
E! News Live 2003-2005 TV Series Himself Self
Unscripted 2005 TV Series Himself Self
Today 2001-2004 TV Series Himself Self
HBO First Look 2004 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Extra 2003 TV Series Himself Self
Entertainment Tonight 2003 TV Series Himself Self
Live with Kelly and Michael 2001-2003 TV Series Himself Self
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn 2001-2002 TV Series Himself Self
The 27th Annual People’s Choice Awards 2001 TV Special Himself Self
The Movie Chart Show 2001 TV Series documentary Himself Self
The 53rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 2001 TV Special Self
7th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards 2001 TV Special Himself Self
Anatomy of a Scene 2001 TV Series documentary Himself Self
The More You Know 1989 TV Series Himself Self
Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99 1999 Video Boyfriend (segment “The Power of Good-bye”) (uncredited) Archive Footage

Goran Visnjic Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie Category
2011 Gotham Independent Film Award Gotham Awards Best Ensemble Performance Beginners (2010) Won
2004 Best Actor Paris Film Festival Doctor Sleep (2002) Won
2004 Golden Arena Pula Film Festival National Competition: Best Actor Duga mracna noc (2004) Won
2011 Gotham Independent Film Award Gotham Awards Best Ensemble Performance Beginners (2010) Nominated
2004 Best Actor Paris Film Festival Doctor Sleep (2002) Nominated
2004 Golden Arena Pula Film Festival National Competition: Best Actor Duga mracna noc (2004) Nominated