Natasha Petrovic
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Nataša Petrović also known as Natasha Petrovic, is a Macedonian actress of Serbian descent
. She made her on–screen debut in 2007 Macedonian film Shadows
by Milčo Mančevski
, and reached a worldwide success with 2010 film As If I Am Not There
by Juanita Wilson
, which has been selected as the Irish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film
at the 84th Academy Awards
.
, a 2007 Macedonian film directed by Milčo Mančevski
. In 2009, she landed the lead role in Irish film As If I Am Not There
, directed by Juanita Wilson
, which premiered in 2010. Although most of the film is shot in Serbo-Croatian language
, it has been selected as the Irish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film
at the 84th Academy Awards
. As If I Am Not There garnered positive reviews, while Petrovic's personal performance earned her Seattle International Film Festival Award for Best Actress
, as well as the Irish Film and Television Award for Best International Actress
and Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Acting Performance – Female nominations.
At the 61st Berlin International Film Festival
, Petrovic was one of ten Eurropean actors — including Andrea Riseborough
, Clara Lago
, Alexander Fehling
, and Domhnall Gleeson
— that were presented the Shooting Stars Award
by the European Film Promotion
. American magazine Variety
also named her as one of the most promising actresses today. In 2011, Petrovic made her stage debut as Célimène in The Misanthrope
by Molière
. The same year, she played Elikia in The Sound of Cracking Bones by Suzanne Lebeau.
, Serbian
, English
, Bosnian
, German
, Bulgarian
, Italian
and Spanish
. She has been studying drama at the St. Cyril and Methodius University since 2007, and is expected to graduate in 2011. Petrovic has been compared to the triple Academy Award winner Ingrid Bergman
for her beauty and talent.
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
. She made her on–screen debut in 2007 Macedonian film Shadows
Shadows (2007 film)
Shadows is a 2007 film from the Republic of Macedonia. The film was directed, produced and written by Milčo Mančevski. It was filmed on location in both Skopje, Ohrid and several other locations in the Republic of Macedonia.-Plot:...
by Milčo Mančevski
Milco Mancevski
Milcho Manchevski , usually credited as Milcho Manchevski, is a film director and screenwriter from Macedonia.-Biography:Milcho Manchevski wrote and directed the feature films "Before the Rain" , "Dust'" , Shadows" and "Mothers" , over 50 short forms, including “TENNESSEE” for Arrested Development...
, and reached a worldwide success with 2010 film As If I Am Not There
As If I Am Not There
As If I Am Not There is a 2010 Irish drama film directed by Juanita Wilson. The film is set in the Balkans and is shot in the Serbo-Croatian language...
by Juanita Wilson
Juanita Wilson
Juanita Wilson is an Irish director and writer from Dublin. Her short film The Door received an Irish Film and Television Award in 2009 and an Academy Award nomination in 2010...
, which has been selected as the Irish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
at the 84th Academy Awards
84th Academy Awards
The 84th Academy Awards ceremony will honor the best films of 2011 and will take place on February 26, 2012, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. It will be televised in the United States on ABC. The host was originally going to be Eddie Murphy. However, after Brett Ratner resigned as...
.
Career
Petrovic made her on–screen debut with a small role in ShadowsShadows (2007 film)
Shadows is a 2007 film from the Republic of Macedonia. The film was directed, produced and written by Milčo Mančevski. It was filmed on location in both Skopje, Ohrid and several other locations in the Republic of Macedonia.-Plot:...
, a 2007 Macedonian film directed by Milčo Mančevski
Milco Mancevski
Milcho Manchevski , usually credited as Milcho Manchevski, is a film director and screenwriter from Macedonia.-Biography:Milcho Manchevski wrote and directed the feature films "Before the Rain" , "Dust'" , Shadows" and "Mothers" , over 50 short forms, including “TENNESSEE” for Arrested Development...
. In 2009, she landed the lead role in Irish film As If I Am Not There
As If I Am Not There
As If I Am Not There is a 2010 Irish drama film directed by Juanita Wilson. The film is set in the Balkans and is shot in the Serbo-Croatian language...
, directed by Juanita Wilson
Juanita Wilson
Juanita Wilson is an Irish director and writer from Dublin. Her short film The Door received an Irish Film and Television Award in 2009 and an Academy Award nomination in 2010...
, which premiered in 2010. Although most of the film is shot in Serbo-Croatian language
Serbo-Croatian language
Serbo-Croatian or Serbo-Croat, less commonly Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian , is a South Slavic language with multiple standards and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro...
, it has been selected as the Irish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
at the 84th Academy Awards
84th Academy Awards
The 84th Academy Awards ceremony will honor the best films of 2011 and will take place on February 26, 2012, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. It will be televised in the United States on ABC. The host was originally going to be Eddie Murphy. However, after Brett Ratner resigned as...
. As If I Am Not There garnered positive reviews, while Petrovic's personal performance earned her Seattle International Film Festival Award for Best Actress
Seattle International Film Festival
The Seattle International Film Festival , held annually in Seattle, Washington since 1976, is among the top film festivals in North America. Audiences have grown steadily; the 2006 festival had 160,000 attendees...
, as well as the Irish Film and Television Award for Best International Actress
Irish Film and Television Awards
The Irish Film and Television Awards were first awarded in 2003. Its sole aim is to celebrate Ireland's notably talented film and television community...
and Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Acting Performance – Female nominations.
At the 61st Berlin International Film Festival
61st Berlin International Film Festival
The 61st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 10 to February 20, 2011, with actress Isabella Rossellini as the President of the Jury. The Coen Brothers film True Grit opened the festival. 300,000 tickets were sold in total during the event, to 20,000 attendees from 116...
, Petrovic was one of ten Eurropean actors — including Andrea Riseborough
Andrea Riseborough
-Early life:Riseborough grew up in Whitley Bay. In reference to The Long Walk To Finchley, she has described her parents as "working-class Thatcherites"....
, Clara Lago
Clara Lago
Clara Lago Grau is a Spanish actress.- Filmography :* El Mal Ajeno * El Juego Del Ahorcado * El club de los suicidas * Arena en los Bolsillos * La vida que te espera...
, Alexander Fehling
Alexander Fehling
Alexander Fehling is a German film and stage actor. He is best known to English-language audiences as Staff Sgt. Wilhelm in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film, Inglourious Basterds.-Life and career:Fehling was born in Berlin...
, and Domhnall Gleeson
Domhnall Gleeson
Domhnall Gleeson is an Irish actor, director and writer from Dublin. He has acted on both stage and screen, picking up a Tony Award nomination in 2006 for his part in the Broadway production The Lieutenant of Inishmore...
— that were presented the Shooting Stars Award
Shooting Stars Award
The Shooting Stars Award is annually presented to ten young European actors at the Berlin International Film Festival. It was introduced in 1998 by European Film Promotion , a pan-European network of film promotion and export organisations, and is supported by the MEDIA Programme of the EU...
by the European Film Promotion
European Film Promotion
European Film Promotion is an organisation which works for the worldwide promotion and marketing of European cinema. The EFP network incorporates 31 national promotion organisations from 32 European countries.-Activities:EFP's major objectives are:...
. American magazine Variety
Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
also named her as one of the most promising actresses today. In 2011, Petrovic made her stage debut as Célimène in The Misanthrope
The Misanthrope
The Misanthrope is the first EP from metal band Darkest Hour. It was released in 1996 on the defunct label Death Truck Records. It is much more hardcore orientated metalcore unlike their later releases.- Track listing :# "Vise" - 5:30...
by Molière
Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...
. The same year, she played Elikia in The Sound of Cracking Bones by Suzanne Lebeau.
Personal life
Petrovic is influent in MacedonianMacedonian language
Macedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora...
, Serbian
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
, English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, Bosnian
Bosnian language
Bosnian is a South Slavic language, spoken by Bosniaks. As a standardized form of the Shtokavian dialect, it is one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina....
, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, Bulgarian
Bulgarian language
Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...
, Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
. She has been studying drama at the St. Cyril and Methodius University since 2007, and is expected to graduate in 2011. Petrovic has been compared to the triple Academy Award winner Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute...
for her beauty and talent.
Filmography
| Title | Year | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shadows Shadows (2007 film) Shadows is a 2007 film from the Republic of Macedonia. The film was directed, produced and written by Milčo Mančevski. It was filmed on location in both Skopje, Ohrid and several other locations in the Republic of Macedonia.-Plot:... |
2007 | Dea | Senki |
| As If I Am Not There As If I Am Not There As If I Am Not There is a 2010 Irish drama film directed by Juanita Wilson. The film is set in the Balkans and is shot in the Serbo-Croatian language... |
2010 | Samira | European Film Promotion European Film Promotion European Film Promotion is an organisation which works for the worldwide promotion and marketing of European cinema. The EFP network incorporates 31 national promotion organisations from 32 European countries.-Activities:EFP's major objectives are:... Shooting Stars Award Shooting Stars Award The Shooting Stars Award is annually presented to ten young European actors at the Berlin International Film Festival. It was introduced in 1998 by European Film Promotion , a pan-European network of film promotion and export organisations, and is supported by the MEDIA Programme of the EU... Seattle International Film Festival Award for Best Actress Seattle International Film Festival The Seattle International Film Festival , held annually in Seattle, Washington since 1976, is among the top film festivals in North America. Audiences have grown steadily; the 2006 festival had 160,000 attendees... Nominated—Irish Film and Television Award for Best International Actress Irish Film and Television Awards The Irish Film and Television Awards were first awarded in 2003. Its sole aim is to celebrate Ireland's notably talented film and television community... Nominated—Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Acting Performance – Female |
Stage credists
| Title | Year | Role | Production |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Misanthrope The Misanthrope The Misanthrope is the first EP from metal band Darkest Hour. It was released in 1996 on the defunct label Death Truck Records. It is much more hardcore orientated metalcore unlike their later releases.- Track listing :# "Vise" - 5:30... |
2011 | Célimène | The Theatra Theatre Skopje |
| The Sound of Cracking Bones | 2011 | Elikia | The Theatra Theatre Skopje |
Awards and nominations
| Award | Year | Category | Nominated Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shooting Stars Award Shooting Stars Award The Shooting Stars Award is annually presented to ten young European actors at the Berlin International Film Festival. It was introduced in 1998 by European Film Promotion , a pan-European network of film promotion and export organisations, and is supported by the MEDIA Programme of the EU... s |
2011 | Shooting Star | — | |
| Irish Film and Television Awards Irish Film and Television Awards The Irish Film and Television Awards were first awarded in 2003. Its sole aim is to celebrate Ireland's notably talented film and television community... |
2011 | Best International Actress | As If I Am Not There As If I Am Not There As If I Am Not There is a 2010 Irish drama film directed by Juanita Wilson. The film is set in the Balkans and is shot in the Serbo-Croatian language... |
|
| Milan International Film Festival Awards | 2011 | Best Acting Performance – Female | As If I Am Not There | |
| Seattle International Film Festival Awards Seattle International Film Festival The Seattle International Film Festival , held annually in Seattle, Washington since 1976, is among the top film festivals in North America. Audiences have grown steadily; the 2006 festival had 160,000 attendees... |
2011 | Best Actress | As If I Am Not There |