Dragomir Mrsic (born 2 October 1969), nicknamed Gago is a Serbian-Swedish

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, sports consultant and sports leader.

Life and career

Mrsic was born in the Rasavci village near

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, to father Momir and mother Radojka. His father got a job in Sweden in the late 1960s. Dragomir moved with his mother and two older siblings to

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aged a month and a half, and was brought up in

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, a suburb of southern

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. His father worked as a chef at Grand Hôtel in the city, his mother as a cleaner at the local school. His father was a functioning alcoholic. At 14 years of age he witnessed his brother's friend's

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. His two

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s, sister Ranka and brother Radomir "Rajko", died due to drug usage. He has been trained in

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since his youth, and has a black belt. His childhood idol was

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. At 18 years of age, in 1987, he became the Nordic Champion in

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. In 1990, he and his friend Liam Norberg were involved in the robbery of bank Götabanken; he stood guard some hundred meters away. He was arrested and sentenced to three years and six months in prison for the robbery, and served his sentence at Hall Prison. He studied

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in prison. After serving his sentence, he entered into a sports college. He then started a gym, and became a sports consultant. He was a top program trainer in the Swedish Olympics Committee from 2000 to 2004. After a few minor acting roles, such as in the Wallander film '' Kuriren'' (2009), he got his big break out in 2010 as Mrado, in the critically acclaimed film '' Easy Money'' (2010). In 2014, he co-starred in the

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film, ''

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''. In January 2015, he gave his voice and likeness to Dragan in the video game ''

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''. Mrsic is the only cast member in the game who has previously been involved in illegal activities. In his gym, "Extreme Training", he has trained sportspeople such as

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and Douglas Murray and actors such as

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. He also starred in

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in seasons 2019/2020. Mrsic is cohabitating with the PT coach Isabel Alonso. They met in 1992 and have a daughter and a son together.Dragomir: ”Försökte skydda mamma”
Expressen, 9 mars 2014

Filmography

Movies

TV-series

Video games

Writing

*Dragomir Mrsic & Majsan Boström; ''Extreme Training: from Fittja to Hollywood'', Fitnessförlaget, 2014.

Annotations

References

External links

* *, pronunciation demonstrated around 0:40 (non-English interview), accessed January 22, 2015. * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mrsic, Dragmomir 1969 births Swedish male actors Living people People from Prijedor Swedish people of Serbian descent Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriates in Sweden Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Swedish criminals Swedish male taekwondo practitioners 20th-century Swedish sportsmen