Milena Dravić

Biography

Milena Dravić was a Serbian actress born in Belgrade in 1940. She began her performing career at four with dance and later classical ballet before being discovered by director František Čap in 1959 for his film Vrata ostaju otvorena. Her breakthrough role came in 1962's Prekobrojna, where she won the Golden Arena for Best Actress, setting her on a path to becoming Yugoslavia's first and biggest female movie star.