ACTOR · BORN 1946
Rade Šerbedžija
- Born
- 27 July 1946
19 archived facts 4 topics 1 source Last reviewed Sep 2026
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- #001
Rade Šerbedžija speaks good Italian.
- #002
He was a professor of acting at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia.
- #003
His neighbor in America is Benicio Del Toro.
- #004
In the famous M&M's Super Bowl commercial, as the head of a Russian mafia, he was to serve the Yellow M&M (voiced by J. K. Simmons) in ice cream to his men and his family.
- #005
He generally plays Russians.
- #006
He plays guitar and sings, which is why he has done several music tours.
- #007
He played a homeless man in Batman Begins (2005), which used Mentmore Towers as the filming location for Wayne Manor. That location was used in another film starring Rade Šerbedžija — Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999) — where it served as the exterior of the famous sex party scene.
- #008
His surname means a person who makes and/or sells a sweet drink called şerbet in Turkish.
- #009
In 2000, together with Borislav Vujcic, he founded the Ulysses Theatre on Brijuni; he also directs and acts in most of its plays.
- #010
During the Balkan war he fled to Slovenia, where he also obtained a Slovenian passport. In 2014 he also obtained a Macedonian passport.
- #011
He won great acclaim on the London stage for his work in Colin Redgrave's Moving Theatre Company production of "Brecht in Hollywood" (1994).
- #012
He is the father of Danilo Serbedzija.
- #013
He is one of Macedonian director Milcho Manchevski's favorite actors. He and Manchevski worked together on Before the Rain (1994), which was nominated for an Oscar.
- #014
He ranked 4th on the list of "Best Croatian Male Film Stars of All Time" in the Croatia-based monthly film magazine "Hollywood" (November 2005).
- #015
He won the Best Actor award at the Rome Film Festival for his role as Athos in the film Fugitive Pieces (2007), and was nominated for the Satellite Award and the Genie Award for the same role.
- #016
He won the Golden Arena for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 57th Pula Film Festival for his role in 72 Days (2010), the first film by his son Danilo Serbedzija.
- #017
He is one of Croatia's greatest theater and film actors.
- #018
He is the father of Lucija Šerbedžija.
- #019
He won the Golden Arena (Pula Film Festival) award for his roles in the films Bravo maestro (1978) and Vecernja zvona (1986).
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