Goran Gajić

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Goran Gajić
Горан Гајић
Born1962 (age 5960)
NationalitySerbian
OccupationFilm, television and theater director
Spouse
(m. 1998;died 2021)
Children1

Goran Gajić (Serbian Cyrillic : Горан Гајић; born 1962) is a Serbian film, television and theater director. He has directed media in English and Serbo-Croatian.

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His wife was actress Mira Furlan, [1] and they have one son, Marko Lav. [1] In 1998, he directed his wife (playing Delenn) in And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder , an episode of Babylon 5 . They were married until her death on 20 January 2021. [2]

In 1995 he directed an award-winning adaptation of Antigone . The play was performed at Hudson Guild Theatre in Los Angeles.

He has also worked as a writer (The Seventh Day), [3] and actor ( Strangler vs. Strangler ). In the 1980s he also directed Plavi Orkestar music videos for their tracks "Kad mi kažeš paša" (When You Tell Me Pasha ) and "Suada" ( Suada ).

Filmography

As director:

  1. The Storks Will Return (2007–2008) – 25 episodes
  2. Theater in the House – 1 episode: "Taj prokleti kutnjak" (2007)
  3. The Inner Circle (2003)
  4. Sheena – 2 episodes: "Treasure of Sienna Mende" (2001), "Return of the Native" (2002)
  5. Oz – 2 episodes: "The Bill of Wrongs" (2000), "Revenge Is Sweet" (2001)
  6. Level 9 – 1 episode: "Wetware" (2001)
  7. The Beat – 1 episode: "Dark End of the Street"
  8. Babylon 5 – 1 episode: "And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" (1998)
  9. Dear Video (1991)
  10. There Are No Unfortunate Tourists Here (1990)
  11. The Fall of Rock'n'Roll / How Rock'n'Roll was Ruined (1989) – segment "Ne šalji mi pisma"
  12. Laibach: Victory Under the Sun (1988)
  13. The Seventh Day (1987)

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References

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  2. "Mira Furlan: Babylon 5 and Lost actress dies at 65". BBC News. January 22, 2021. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
  3. "The Seventh Day (1987)". www.imdb.com. Retrieved 2010-07-07.