Ivana Bašic
Encyclopedia
Ivana Bašić is a Croatian
actress who starred in the BBC
medical drama Casualty
as Serbian paramedic Snezana Lalovic. It was announced on February 12, 2009 that she was to leave the series at the end of March, along with co-star Janine Mellor
. She resides in London
.
Bašić has made a number of appearances on British television, notably Murphy's Law
and Silent Witness
, as well as an earlier appearance in Casualty. She normally portrays a character with an eastern European
background, an ability largely helped by her own Croatian background.
Croats
Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...
actress who starred in the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
medical drama Casualty
Casualty (TV series)
Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
as Serbian paramedic Snezana Lalovic. It was announced on February 12, 2009 that she was to leave the series at the end of March, along with co-star Janine Mellor
Janine Mellor
Janine Mellor is an English actress. She is best known for playing Kelsey Phillips in BBC One's BAFTA-winning drama Casualty...
. She resides in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
.
Bašić has made a number of appearances on British television, notably Murphy's Law
Murphy's Law (TV series)
Murphy's Law is a BBC television drama, produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Northern Ireland, starring James Nesbitt as an undercover police officer, Tommy Murphy. There were five series of the drama, shown on BBC One. The first two were composed of individual stories. Series three, four...
and Silent Witness
Silent Witness
Silent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was...
, as well as an earlier appearance in Casualty. She normally portrays a character with an eastern European
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
background, an ability largely helped by her own Croatian background.