Slobodan "Boda" Ninković ( sr-Cyrl, Слободан "Бода" Нинковић; born 25 November 1956 in Smederevo) is a Serbian

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

. He is known for his work in the films '' Ulysses' Gaze'', '' The Crusaders'' and ''

We Are Not Angels ''We Are Not Angels'' ( sr, Ми нисмо анђели / ''Mi nismo anđeli'') is a 1992 Serbian and Yugoslavian comedy movie directed by Srđan Dragojević that became one of the most popular films of the 1990s in the region of the Socialist Fed ...

''. He starred in the popular television series ''

Otvorena vrata Otvorena vrata (Serbian Cyrillic: Отворена врата, en, Open Doors), is a Serbian comedy television series filmed in 1994-1995. Broadcast on state television RTS, it ran for 2 seasons (34 episodes in total) featuring a regular family li ...

'', ''

Naša mala klinika Naša mala klinika (Our Little Clinic) was a Slovenian comedy series broadcast by Pop TV respectively, between 2004 and 2007. Seven seasons were broadcast. The series was written by Marko Pokorn, Rok Vilčnik and Branko Đurić "Đuro", who also ...

'' and '' Senke nad Balkanom''. Considered a dedicated and hard-working

method actor Method ( grc, μέθοδος, methodos) literally means a pursuit of knowledge, investigation, mode of prosecuting such inquiry, or system. In recent centuries it more often means a prescribed process for completing a task. It may refer to: *Scien ...

, Ninković is also known for his work ethic and prolific stance in theatre. He has performed in the

National Theatre in Belgrade The National Theatre ( sr-cyr, Народно позориште, Narodno pozorište) is a theatre located in Belgrade, Serbia. Founded in the later half of the 19th century, it is located on the Republic Square, at the corner of Vasina and Fra ...

Atelje 212 Atelje 212 ( sr-Cyrl, Атеље 212) is a theatre located in Belgrade, Serbia. Established in 1956 on the premises of the ''Borba (newspaper), Borba'' building in front of 212 chairs, its opening play was the staging of Johann Wolfgang von Goeth ...

, the

Boško Buha Boško Buha ( sr-cyr, Бошко Буха; 1926 – 27 September 1943) was a young Yugoslav Partisan and an honored icon of the Yugoslavian resistance during World War II. Early life Boško Buha was born into a Serb family in the Slavonian ...

Theatre, the Zvezdara Theatre and the

Yugoslav Drama Theatre Yugoslav Drama Theatre ( sr-cyrl, Југословенско драмско позориште, Jugoslovensko dramsko pozorište; abbr. JDP or ''Jugodrp'') is a theatre located in Belgrade, Serbia. It was founded in 1947 as the representative th ...

. In his theatre repertoire, he has appeared over three thousand times on stage, including performing in two different theatres two different plays at the same time (''Ona voli Mambo'' in the Bitef Theatre and ''Grobljanska'' in the Zvezdara Theatre). He is widely called "a legend of

Smederevo Smederevo ( sr-Cyrl, Смедерево, ) is a city and the administrative center of the Podunavlje District in eastern Serbia. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube, about downstream of the Serbian capital, Belgrade. According to ...

" by critics, actors, historians, writers and academics.

Career

An alumnus of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, he was a member of the most successful class in the history of the university, nicknamed "the turbo-class". The twelve-student class of 1984, led by Vladimir Jevtović has spawned one of the most established and prolific actors in Serbian theatre, television and film, including

Dragan Bjelogrlić Dragan Bjelogrlić "Bjela" ( sr, Драган Бјелогрлић, ; born 10 October 1963) is a Serbian actor, director and producer. Career Bjelogrlić made his acting debut as a 15-year old, playing Sava Jovanović Sirogojno in ''Boško Buha'' ...

, Vesna Trivalić,

Srđan Todorović Srđan "Žika" Todorović ( sr-cyr, Срђан "Жика" Тодоровић, ; born 28 March 1965) is a Serbian actor and musician. He has played in numerous bands, including Ekatarina Velika, Disciplina Kičme, Radnička Kontrola and Bezobraz ...

Mirjana Joković Mirjana Joković ( sr-cyr, Мирјана Јоковић; born 24 November 1967) is a Serbian film and stage actress, best known for her role as Natalija Zovkov in Emir Kusturica's ''Underground'' (1995). She currently is Director of Performan ...

Milorad Mandić Milorad Mandić Manda ( sr-cyr, Милорад Мандић; 3 May 1961 – 15 June 2016) was a Serbian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films during his career. Biography At the age of 21, he became a member of the Belgrade Amateur Exper ...

, Vesna Stanojević, Dušanka Stojanović,

Dragan Petrović Dragan Petrović (born 17 December 1961) is a Serbian actor. He has appeared in more than seventy films since 1978. He teaches at the University of Arts in Belgrade The University of Arts in Belgrade ( sr-cyr, Универзитет уметно ...

, Branka Pujić, Darko Tomović, Tatjana Venčelovski and Ninković, respectively. Best known for his versatile and wide range in theatre, he is prominent for both his comedic and dramatic roles in the

, the

Theatre, the Zvezdara Theatre and the

, including modern repertoire and classic works by

Racine Jean-Baptiste Racine ( , ) (; 22 December 163921 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western traditio ...

Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...

Dostoyevski Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (, ; rus, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy, p=ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ dəstɐˈjefskʲɪj, a=ru-Dostoevsky.ogg, links=yes; 11 November 18219 ...

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, A. P. Chekhov,

Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of ...

Homer Homer (; grc, Ὅμηρος , ''Hómēros'') (born ) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer is considered one of the ...

and Moliere. He has appeared in over fifty films, starring in over twenty of them. Among his notable credits stand '' Ulysses' Gaze'', '' The Crusaders'', ''

'', '' Sveti Georgije ubiva aždahu'' and '' San zimske noći''. He has starred in the commercially and critically successful

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televised series as ''

'', ''

'' and '' Senke nad Balkanom''. He appeared in supporting roles in the series ''

Bolji život ''Bolji život'' (Serbian Cyrillic: Бољи живот, English: ''A Better Life'') is a Yugoslav TV series with mixed elements of soap opera, comedy and drama that aired from 1987 to 1991. Created by the Radiotelevision Belgrade (RTB) it is co ...

'' and ''Folk''. He was also the presenter of

Beovizija 2007 Serbia debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song "Molitva" written by Saša Milošević Mare and Vladimir Graić. The song was performed by Marija Šerifović. The Serbian national broadcaster, Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) orga ...

. He has also worked prominently in radio and animation. He is the official Serbian voice dub for

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. He also voiced

Tantor ''Tantor'' is a generic name for elephants in ''Mangani'', the fictional language of the great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. In Burroughs's works a number of elephants appear under the name of ''Tantor'', most notably one pa ...

in the Serbian dub of ''

Tarzan Tarzan (John Clayton II, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adv ...

'',

Philoctetes Philoctetes ( grc, Φιλοκτήτης ''Philoktētēs''; English pronunciation: , stress (linguistics), stressed on the third syllable, ''-tet-''), or Philocthetes, according to Greek mythology, was the son of Poeas, king of Meliboea (Magnes ...

in the Serbian dub of ''

Hercules Hercules (, ) is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures. The Romans adapted the Gr ...

'', Li Shan in the Serbian dub of ''

Kung Fu Panda 3 ''Kung Fu Panda 3'' is a 2016 computer-animated martial arts comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the third installment in the ''Kung Fu Panda'' franchise and the sequel to ''Kung Fu Panda 2' ...

'' and Smokey in ''

Cars 3 ''Cars 3'' is a 2017 American computer-animated sports comedy-adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The sequel to ''Cars 2'' (2011) and the third installment of the ''Cars'' film series, the ...

''. His autobiography ''Slušaj sine ove velike reči'', written by Jovica Tišma, was released in February 2019. His book ''Sin moj'' is set to be released 2021.

Filmography

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ninkovic, Slobodan 1956 births Living people 20th-century Serbian male actors 21st-century Serbian male actors 21st-century Serbian writers Serbian male film actors Serbian male stage actors Serbian male television actors Serbian male voice actors People from Smederevo