Jelisaveta "Seka" Sablić ( sr-cyr, Јелисавета "Сека" Саблић; born 13 June 1942) is a Serbian actress. She has performed in theatre houses in Belgrade and on TV and film. She is the winner of major theatre awards in Serbia and former
Yugoslavia
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and
Serbia and Montenegro
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.
Personal life
She was born and grew up in
Belgrade
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. Her father Stefan Sablić was a
Serb
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Banija
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Austria-Hungary
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; her mother Ana Avramović was from
Dorćol
Dorćol ( sr-Cyrl, Дорћол; ) is an affluent urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Stari Grad.
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,
Serbia
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, and was of
Sephardic Jewish
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descent. She has one brother, Siniša Sablić.
Her son Stefan Sablić is a theatre director."Jelisaveta Seka Sablić: Verujem u svog sina" Story.rs, 1 March 2010.
Sablić was a close friend of actors
Dragan Nikolić
Dragoslav "Dragan" Nikolić ( sr-cyr, Драгослав Драган Николић, ; 20 August 1943 – 11 March 2016) was a Serbian and Yugoslav actor.
Nikolić studied at Dramatic Arts Academy in Belgrade. In 1967 he starred in the film ' ...
and
Milena Dravić
Milena Dravić ( sr-Cyrl, Милена Дравић, ; 5 October 1940 – 14 October 2018) was a Yugoslav and Serbian film, television and theatre actress. She played the mother of Brad Pitt in the 1988 film '' The Dark Side of the Sun''.
Biograp ...
and was also a
maid of honour
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Tudors and Stuarts
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at their 1971 wedding.
She is the maternal aunt of actress Ana Alexander.
Filmography
Television
Film
Awards
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Montréal World Film Festival
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Pula Film Festival
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, Best Actress, 1982, for ''Maratonci trče počasni krug''
*
Days of Nušić
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Festival, Award for lifework of a Comedian, 2006
* Ljubinka Bobić Award, 2006
* Golden Turkey, Best Actress, 2006, for ''Svinjski otac''
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Žanka Stokić Award The Žanka Stokić ( sr-Cyrl, Жанка Стокић) is the distinguished award for acting in Serbian theater. It is awarded only to actresses.
History of the award begins in 2001 when famous Serbian actress Mira Stupica (1923-2016) celebrated he ...