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: Гала Виденовић Алексић; born 27 June 1969 in Serbia,
Belgrade
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) 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
wife
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of painter
Salvador Dalí
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. Her mother Dagmar Stojanović Videnović (1943 - 2009) was a prominent Serbian artist, academic painter/set designer, originally from
Czech Republic
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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
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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
Brač
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making it the largest island in Dalmatia, and the third largest in the Adriatic. It is separated from the mainland by the Brač Channel, which is wide.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
California
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, with the intention of studying acting and pursuing a successful international career.
When she arrived in
United States
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, Gala lived in the house of a family friend of her parents
Dan Tana
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Tana is best known as the proprietor of an eponymous restaurant, Dan Tana's, in ...
, who helped her start her career and provided her with numerous
casting
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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
yoga
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seriously and became an international yoga instructor.
Gala Aleksic has two sons. She lives on the Malibu - Belgrade route. Occasionally accepts roles in domestic films and series and borrows a voice in the dubbing of animated films.