Jelena Jovanova

Jelena Jovanova Perić (Macedonian: Јелена Јованова Периќ; born 21 October 1984) is a Macedonian actress.^[1]

Biography

Jelena Jovanova was born in SR Bosnia and Herzegovina to a Macedonian father from Štip and a Bosnian Serb mother from Prijedor, was raised in Macedonia, then married and moved to Croatia. She graduated from The Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje. Member of Macedonian National Theater since 2006 where she played over twenty-five leading roles.

Career

Her powerful big screen debut was in Juanita Wilson's As If I Am Not There, which has been selected as the Irish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.

In 2010, she was cast in Angelina Jolie's directorial debut In the Land of Blood and Honey,^[2] nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 69th Golden Globe Awards. This film made her the first Macedonian actress ever to appear in a Hollywood production.

Filmography

• As If I Am Not There (2010)
• In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
• The Third Half (2012)
• Skopje Remix (2012)
• Ckopa (2015)
• The Constitution (2016)
• Child (2016)
• Iron Story (2017)
• Hey! (2018)
• The Witch Hunters (2018)
• Black and White (2018)
• El Desentierro (2018)
• Willow (2019)
• Homo (2020)

Television

• Secrets (Tajne) as Marina Franic (2013-2014)
• Whichever Way the Ball Bounces as Nadalija (2015)
• Prespav as Jelena (2016-2021)
• In Treatment (Na terapija) as Milena (2017)
• Insajder as Iskra (2017)
• Pagan Peak as Ivana (2019)

Selected Stage Roles

• Chicago as Roxie Hart
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Honey
• Push Up 1-3 as Sabine
• Troilus and Cressida as Helen of Troy
• Twig in the Wind as Magda
• Hasanaginica as Hasanaginica
• Sexual Perversity in Chicago as Deborah
• A Clockwork Orange as Alex
• The Decameron as Filomena
• Dundo Maroje as Petrunjela
• Don Quixote as Dulcinea
• Class Enemy as Iron
• Miss Julie as Miss Julie

References

External links

• Jelena Jovanova at IMDb
• Interview for The Huffington Post