Neda Spasojević (16 April 1941 – 16 July 1981) was a Serbian film, television and theater actress. She appeared in more than sixty films from 1964 until her 1981 death from cancer at age 40.

Early life

Neda Spasojević was born in the Yugoslav capital city Belgrade the week that the

Kingdom of Yugoslavia The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Kraljevina Jugoslavija, Краљевина Југославија; sl, Kraljevina Jugoslavija) was a state in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 ...

was invaded by Germany in April 1941. Her father Milorad was a traveling actor. Her mother was an Austrian woman from Vienna named Hilda Lermer, who later adopted the Serbian name Jelena. Hilda worked as a seamstress for various theaters.

Career

Listening to her fathers advice to travel to

Podgorica Podgorica (Cyrillic: Подгорица, ; lit. 'under the hill') is the capital and largest city of Montenegro. The city was formerly known as Titograd (Cyrillic: Титоград, ) between 1946 and 1992—in the period that Montenegro form ...

, Montenegro if she wished to become an actress, she performed in her first show on 23 March 1961. Spasojević appeared in her first film in 1964, acting alongside

Danilo Stojković Danilo Stojković ( sr-cyr, Данило Стојковић; 11 August 1934 – 16 March 2002), commonly nicknamed Bata (Бата), was a Serbian theatre, television and film actor. Stojković's numerous comedic portrayals of the "small man fig ...

in ''Izdajnik''.

Death

Spasojević was diagnosed with cancer in early 1981. She succumbed to the disease on 16 July 1981 at the age of 40, weeks after completing her scenes for the film ''Banović Strahinja''. She was survived by her husband and eight year old year-old daughter Isidora Minić.

Selected filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Spasojevic, Neda 1941 births 1981 deaths Actresses from Belgrade Golden Arena winners Serbian film actresses