Vanja Ejdus (

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, th ...

: Вања Ејдус; born 1 November 1976)Slavko Trošelj
"Не осећам припадност ни вери ни нацији"
''Политика'', 13 November 2010 . is a Serbian actress.

Early life and education

Born in

Belgrade Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...

, Ejdus is the eldest child of actor

Predrag Ejdus Predrag Ejdus ( sr-cyr, Предраг Ејдус; 24 July 1947 – 28 September 2018) was a Serbian actor of theater, film and television. His extensive body of work includes over 200 theater productions, 50 films and 30 television series. Ejdu ...

and his wife Milica, an architect; her father's grandparents were among the Jewish people of Belgrade killed in the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

. She studied acting at the

Faculty of Dramatic Arts The Faculty of Dramatic Arts ( sr, Факултет драмских уметности, Fakultet dramskih umetnosti; abbreviated FDU) is a constituent institution of the University of Arts in Belgrade which focuses on education and research in t ...

, winning the Sterija award in 2002 while still a student for her role in an adaptation of ''

Hasanaginica ''Hasanaginica'', also ''Asanaginica'', (first published as ''The Mourning Song of the Noble Wife of the Hasan Aga'') is a South Slavic folk ballad, created during the period of 1646–49, in the region of Imotski, which at the time was a part ...

''.

Career

, Ejdus had had roles in approximately twenty stage and film productions. In 2009, she played Marina in '' Wait for Me and I Will Not Come''."Trejler za Čekaj me ja sigurno neću doći"
''Glossy'', 8 October 2009 .

Personal life

Ejdus and her husband, Ivan Kostić, an expert in Arabic language and literature, have a daughter.

Selected filmography

* '' Yu'' (2003) * '' Wait for Me and I Will Not Come'' (2009)

References

External links

* 1976 births Living people Actresses from Belgrade 21st-century Serbian actresses Serbian film actresses Serbian people of Jewish descent {{Serbia-actor-stub