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Apr 26, 1950 74 years old
Bosnian actor
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About Zinaid Miki Memievi
- Zinaid (Miki) Memiševic (zi'naid 'miki me'mi?evit??) is a theatre and film actor.
- Born in 1950 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia, he now lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia. His first appearance on film in 1966 (Konjuh planinom) in a small role of a young boy, sparked his dream to become an actor and started a successful acting career.
- After graduating from the Academy of Theatre, Film, Radio and Television (Academy of Dramatic Arts) of the University of Belgrade in 1973, he became a permanent member of the company at the National Theatre in Belgrade and appeared on stage in numerous plays.
- He also played roles in many films and TV series that were produced in Yugoslavia during the 1980s and 1990s. Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, he moved to Canada in 1994 with his family and continued his successful career there, appearing in several films and TV series. He "gave Hollywood’s best-known portrayal" of Viktor Vasilyevich Tikhonov, a Soviet ice hockey player and coach, in Miracle (2004) and appeared in cameos as the President Sergey Makarenko in 2012 (2009). He had roles in TV films The Building (2009, dir.
- Terry Ingram), Ronnie and Julie (1997, dir.
- Philip Spink), and in a short film Henry’s Café (1998, dir.
- Ted Bortolin, Geoff Denham).
- He also appeared in several episodes of various TV series, such as The X-Files (1996), Da Vinci's Inquest (2000 and 2002), and Jake 2.0 (2003). In 2009 he was nominated for a Leo Award for the Best Performance by a Male in a Short Drama category for his role in the film Pappy and Speedster (2009, dir.
- Brae Norwiss).He played a significant role in Neworld Theatre and Touchstone Theatre's production of Wajdi Mouawad's play Tideline (2007), in which he appeared together with his daughter, Una Memiševic, who is also an actress.
