Rade Serbedzija mini-bio: Rade Serbedzija won the Best Actor/Marco Aurelio Award at the 2007 Rome International Film Festival for his role in Fugitive Pieces. His next films
opening in early 2008 are Paramount Pictures’ and Cruise/Wagner Productions’ THE EYE and BATTLE IN SEATTLE directed by Stuart Townsend, for which he received an award at the Cancun International Film Festival. He also recently completed shooting LOVE LIFE, the directorial debut of wellknown
German actress Maria Schrader, DreamWorks Pictures’ THE CODE directed by Mimi Leder and Screen Gems’ upcoming QUARANTINED.
Serbedzija has worked with many notable directors including Stanley Kubrick, Clint Eastwood, John Woo, Phillip Noyce and Guy Ritchie. Serbedzija's credits include Kubrick’s EYES WIDE SHUT, Eastwood’s SPACE COWBOYS, Woo’s MISSION IMPOSSIBLE II, Ritchie’s SNATCH and Phillip Noyce’s THE SAINT. He received the Angel Award for Best Actor at the 2007 Monaco International Film Festival for his role in SHORT ORDER directed by
Anthony Byrne. The actor starred in many films in his home country of Yugoslavia, including Milcho Manchevski’s Oscar nominated BEFORE THE RAIN, for which Serbedzija won the Venice Film Festival Pasinetti Award.
Serbedzija's list of high-profile television credits includes the musical SOUTH PACIFIC opposite Glenn Close and Harry Connick Jr., and a series-regular
role on SURFACE for NBC.
A published poet and musician, Serbedzija also has a strong theatre background and has performed in numerous stage productions in London, England. He also established a moving theatre company in London with Vanessa Redgrave. Serbedzija runs the Ulysses Theatre Festival in Croatia with his wife every summer.
