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Nermina Lukac (born 5 January 1990;
Montenegrin spelling Nermina Lukač) is a Swedish actress. Lukac won the 2012
Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
The Guldbagge for Best Actress in a Leading Role is a Swedish film award presented annually by the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) as part of the Guldbagge Awards (Swedish: "Guldbaggen") to actresses working in the Swedish motion picture industry. ...
and other awards for her role in the film ''
Eat Sleep Die''.
Biography
Lukac was born in
Montenegro
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; her family immigrated to Sweden in 1992. She grew up in
Munkedal
Munkedal is a locality and the seat of Munkedal Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 3,718 inhabitants in 2010. Joakim Andersson, an ice hockey player for the Detroit Red Wings, grew up in Munkedal. Olympian Erland Koch was born ...
and
Åstorp
Åstorp (old da, Aastrup) is a bimunicipal locality and the seat of Åstorp Municipality in Scania County, Sweden with 9,488 inhabitants in 2010. It is also partly located in Ängelholm Municipality.
Overview
Åstorp is a railway junction locate ...
and now lives in
Helsingborg
Helsingborg (, , , ) is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Scania (Skåne), Sweden. It is the second-largest city in Scania (after Malmö) and ninth-largest in Sweden, with a population of 113,816 (2020). Helsingborg is the cent ...
; she was trained as an educator, and until her film career began, worked in a recreation centre in
Kvidinge.
Career
Lukac's debut as Raša in ''Eat Sleep Die'' won her several awards, including the
Guldbagge Award
The Guldbagge Awards ( sv, Guldbaggen, en, Gold scarab) is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the nam ...
for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the Rising Star Prize at the
Stockholm International Film Festival, the
Shooting Stars Award
The Shooting Stars Awards are presented annually by the pan-European network organization European Film Promotion (EFP) to emerging actors from Europe. "Shooting Stars" is an initiative of the EFP for the international promotion and networking of p ...
at the
2013 Berlinale and the 2012 ''
Helsingborgs Dagblad
''Helsingborgs Dagblad'' (''HD'', lit. "Helsingborg's Daily Paper"), published in Helsingborg in Skåne is the largest (circ. 84.000) newspaper in Swedish outside the metropolitan districts of Malmö, Göteborg and Stockholm.
History and pro ...
'' Culture Prize.
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Lukac has said that she never sought an acting career and that it was "a shock" when she won the role in ''Eat Sleep Die'' after running into a ]casting agent
A talent agent, or booking agent, is a person who finds jobs for actors, authors, broadcast journalists, film directors, musicians, models, professional athletes, screenwriters, writers, and other professionals in various entertainment or spor ...
at the recreation centre where she used to go when she was young.
Her next film role was in ''False Witness'', an international film directed by Iglika Triffonova and released in 2015 as ''The Prosecutor the Defender the Father and His Son''.
References
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Living people
1990 births
21st-century Swedish actresses
Immigrants to Sweden
Montenegrin emigrants
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