Goran Visnjic Biography

Fast Facts

• Made film debut at age 16 before serving in Croatian and Yugoslavian armies
• At 21 played the lead in Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival and won three national Best Actor Awards and an Orlando (which is comparable to a Tony Award)
• Appeared in commercials for Tuborg beer
• Had a breakthrough role as Risto Bavic in 1997's Welcome to Sarajevo
• Featured in Madonna's 1998 video "The Power of Good-bye
• " Named People magazine's Sexiest Import in 1999 and one of TV's Sexiest Men by TV GUIDE in 2005
• Worked with PETA and Animal Friends Croatia on PETA's first anti-fur campaign in eastern Europe