Goran Višnjić
Also Known As: Goran Visnjic, گوران ویسنیچ
Biography: Goran Višnjić (born September 9, 1972) is a Croatian-born American actor who has appeared in American and British films and TV. He is best known for his role as Dr. Luka Kovač on the hit television series ER. He's also known for his roles as Erik the Red on the Netflix series Vikings: Valhalla, Garcia Flynn on NBC's Timeless, John Woods on CBS's Extant, Marco Costanteon NBC's Crossing Lines, Nicholae Schiller on ABC's Red Widow, Dragan Armansky in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), voice of Soto in Ice Age, Jimmy Angelo in Practical Magic, and Bazta Sergeant in The Peacemaker. He grew up in Sibenik, Croatia (then Yugoslavia), a port town on the Adriatic Sea, where he decided at an early age that he wanted to be an actor. He first performed in local theater groups and then entered the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. Goran gained popularity in Croatia when, at the age of 21, he was cast as Hamlet in the prestigious Dubrovnik Summer Festival’s staging of Shakespeare’s play. His performance earned him three national Best Actor awards, including an Orlando (the Croatian equivalent of a Tony). He made his American motion-picture debut in the "Welcome to Sarajevo," drama, directed by Michael Winterbottom. In his leisure time, he enjoys fencing, swimming and diving. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Eva, and their three children.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sibenik, Yugoslavia [now Croatia]
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Birthday: September 09, 1972
Age: 52 years old
Gender: Male
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Ice Age
Overview: With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth – find an orphaned infant and decide to return it to its human parents. Along the way, the unlikely allies become friends but, when enemies attack, their quest takes on far nobler aims.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-10
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Helen
Overview: On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a kindred spirit struggling with bipolar disorder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-26
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Doctor Sleep
Overview: While treating a policewoman for smoking, hypnotherapist Michael Strother has a telepathic vision of a young girl floating beneath the surface of a stream. The escaped victim of a ritualistic serial killer, the girl has become mute, and Michael is called upon by Scotland Yard to unlock the secrets she holds in order to catch a man who believes he has discovered the key to immortality.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-01
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Practical Magic
Overview: Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-16
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Hellraiser
Overview: A young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to summon the Cenobites, a group of sadistic supernatural beings from another dimension.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-28
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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Overview: Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-19
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The Deep End
Overview: With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their rural lakeside home. What would you do? What is rational and what do you do to protect your child? How far do you go and when do you stop?
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-21
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Spartacus
Overview: Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, the Thracian slave Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the obese owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of an Ethiopian warrior, Draba, Spartacus leads a slave uprising which threatens Rome's status quo. As Spartacus gains sympathy within the Roman Senate, he also makes a powerful enemy in form of Marcus Lucinius Crassus, who makes it a matter of personal honor to crush the rebellion.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-17
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Elektra
Overview: Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural assassins.
Genres: Action Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-13
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Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99
Overview: A collection of Madonna's favorite videos from 1993-1999. Contains the 14 videos: Bad Girl, Fever, Rain, Secret, Take A Bow, Bedtime Story, Human Nature, Love Don't Live Here Anymore, Frozen, Ray Of Light, Drowned World, The Power of Goodbye, Nothing Really Matters, and Beautiful Stranger.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-02
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Welcome to Sarajevo
Overview: Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get children out of the country, a British correspondent decides to take an orphaned girl home to London.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-09
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Overview: Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-14
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Maternal Half-Brothers
Overview: This story about two maternal half-brothers, a Croat and a Serb. Although they never met, and both lose their loved ones in ethnic clashes, there is a bond between them. Filmed in 1988, it prophetically forsees the war that would engulf former Yugoslavia three years later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-09-10
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Beginners
Overview: Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 44 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life – which included a younger boyfriend.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-03
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The Counselor
Overview: A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-25
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K-11
Overview: Raymond Saxx Jr., a powerful record producer, wakes from a drug-induced blackout to find himself locked up and classified "K-11." Plunged into a nightmarish world ruled by a transsexual diva named Mousey, Raymond is truly a fish out of water. Complicating matters are a troubled young transgender named Butterfly, a predatory child molester and the ruthless Sheriff's Deputy, Lt. Johnson. Ray's struggle to contact the outside world and regain his freedom seems impossible, but he must learn to navigate this new power structure if he is ever going survive and be in control of his life again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-15
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Apocrypha
Overview: A young boy picks up his father's camera, with which he accidentally films a dying romance between a man and a woman-
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-22
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Long Dark Night
Overview: "Long Dark Night" follows the life of the fictional character Iva Kolar: his experiences as a Croatian University student, his role as a Partisan fighting Hitler's troops during W.W. II, his involvement in his nation's post-war government, and his eventual downfall.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2004-03-07
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The Last Will
Overview: After the death of a wealthy Croatian emigrant, it is discovered that he left his fortune to an unknown, illegitimate relative back in Croatia.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2001-06-29
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: On Location - Sweden and Hollywood
Overview: A look at the necessity of shooting in Sweden, with emphasis on the country's culture, history, climate, and politics as they play central to the story-line. Also examined is the country's film industry. The supplement offers viewers a glimpse into shooting at the end of the process in Sweden and provides a very brief glimpse into the celebration that followed. It discusses the casting Armansky of actor Goran Visnjic playing the role of Salander's employer at Milton Security. Goran Visnjic works with David Fincher in shaping the character and his performance. additionally this supplement combines a look at the work and style of David Fincher along with the process of shooting some of the scenes in Martin Vanger's house.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-20
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Midnight Sun
Overview: In northern Canada, a young boy sets a goal for himself to to reunite an abandoned polar bear cub with its mother. Goran Visnjic joins the cast as Muktuk, a half Inuit and half Canadian, who knows the terrain where the polar bears live and who agrees to help the boy.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-01
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The General
Overview: Follows the life of general Ante Gotovina.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2019-08-05
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Never Here
Overview: An artist whose work involves capturing images of strangers begins to believe she herself is being observed.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-18
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Rounders
Overview: A young reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-11
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Asthma
Overview: A young musician takes a beautiful tattoo artist on a ride in a stolen classic car.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-23
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Dark Hearts
Overview: When struggling artist Colson finds his muse in sultry singer Fran, their daring romance spirals out of control into a dangerous game of deception and betrayal.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-29
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Committed
Overview: After her husband, Carl, suddenly leaves, Joline travels from New York to Texas to track him down. Although Joline tries to remain upbeat, she is discouraged when she discovers that Carl already has a new girlfriend, the lovely Carmen. Familiarizing herself with Carl's new home and friends, Joline gets company in the form of her brother, Jay. Will Joline win Carl back, or are there other romantic possibilities on her horizon?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-28
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The Tribes of Palos Verdes
Overview: When the situation at her idyllic Palos Verdes home turns volatile, young Medina attempts to surf her way to happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-01
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The Peacemaker
Overview: When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her recover the missing bombs is a crack Special Forces Colonel.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-26
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Paranoia
Overview: A Croatian short film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1993-11-28
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Scream for Help
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-03-13
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Night Watch
Overview: UN agents Mike Graham and Sabrina Carver are sent by their director Nick Caldwell to investigate the theft of Rembrandt's painting, "The Night Watch". The trail takes them from Amsterdam to Hong Kong and involves them in not only art theft and forgery, but the high-tech schemes of Martin Schraeder and his Korean cohort Mao Yixin
Genres: Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-04
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See You
Overview: In the war-driven Balkans in 1991, four friends meet to pay respect to a dead friend...
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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95 Decibels
Overview: 95 Decibels explores the emotional obstacles parents face when they get an unexpected diagnosis of hearing loss for their child.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-05
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Recognition
Overview: During the war, Ana lost members of her family and was raped by a member of the Serb paramilitary forces. Years later, she accidentally sees her tormentor in the middle of Zagreb. She goes to the police, but the man who fits her description was allegedly killed in the war. While nobody believes Ana, the murderous rapist is determined to eliminate her.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1996-11-05
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Robert Capa: In Love and War
Overview: Profile of iconic war photographer Robert Capa, whose career spanned five epic conflicts across three continents before his untimely death at the age of 40. The film traces Endre Freidman's transformation from a young Jewish boy in Budapest to his becoming Robert Capa, the most famous war photographer in the world. (Storyville)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-28
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A Rifle for Sleeping
Overview: Janko, a police officer/veteran of the war, who is suffering from insomnia caused by post-traumatic stress disorder, now works as a guard in front of the Russian embassy in Zagreb. Having abandoned his former paramour, the daughter of his police chief, he marries a kleptomaniacal hairdresser named Nana, whom he once caught in the act of picking pockets. He then embarks on an affair with the beautiful Marta, the widow of the war profiteer Dragutin Karlo Stajner, who has left behind him a bankrupted firm, a worthless limousine, several bastards, and at least one angry woman. While Janko and Marta persistently try to divvy up what loot remains before any number of others can claim it, Karlo unexpectedly turns up alive and jumps into the middle of a fray between Marta; Karlo's lover, Julija, a Czech bar-singer; and Julija's husband Vlado, a former henchman of Karlo's who is now trying to lay claim to Stajner's limo.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Fatima
Overview: In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-13
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The Accursed
Overview: Hana spends twenty years suppressing a maleficent curse that was placed upon her bloodline, only to have a family member knowingly release it forcing her to kill or to be killed.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-12
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