Gala Aleksić (née Videnović;

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: Гала Виденовић Алексић; born 27 June 1969 in Serbia, Belgrade) is a Serbian actress who gained fame by appearing in some of the most popular films, TV shows, and TV commercials in the mid-1980s. She is married to TV director Vladimir Aleksić; they have two sons together, Demian and Pavle.

Biography

Gala Aleksić was born in 1969 in Belgrade, where she was educated. She was named after the

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of painter

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. Her mother Dagmar Stojanović Videnović (1943 - 2009) was a prominent Serbian artist, academic painter - set designer, originally from

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. She first appeared on the TV screen at the age of four. At the time, Galina's mother, Dagmar, was working as a set designer for Serbian Radio and Television. Filming a documentary about Korni grupa Gala was with her, so the director got the idea to have a little girl in the film. A few years after that, she joined the famous children's acting group of the legendary Bate Miladinovića. Gala made her film debut at the age of twelve. After finishing primary school, she enrolled in high school, but due to numerous acting obligations, she had to study part-time. Before graduating from high school, she tried to enroll Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. She was shortlisted, but was not accepted, believing that she was too young. Disappointed, she went to

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, deciding never to act again, but then received an invitation to join the cast of '' Ball on Water''. This was followed by other engagements. After several roles in the cult films of domestic cinema, Gala was predicted a brilliant career, but instead she almost completely disappeared from the screen, when she went to Malibu in 1990 in

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, with the intention of studying acting and pursuing a successful international career. When she arrived in

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, Gala lived in the house of a family friend of her parents Dan Tana, who helped her start her career and provided her with numerous

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s. However, in the same year, she gave birth to a son and decided to retire from show business. In 1996, she returned to Belgrade, where she married a director and actor Vladimir Aleksić. Upon her return to Belgrade, she began to practice

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seriously and became an international yoga instructor. Gala Aleksic has two sons. He lives on the Malibu - Belgrade route. Occasionally accepts roles in domestic films and series and borrows a voice in the dubbing of animated films.

Selected filmography

Film

Television

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Aleksic, Gala 1969 births Living people Actresses from Belgrade Serbian actresses Serbian child actresses Yugoslav child actresses 20th-century Serbian actresses