Beba Loncar
Biography
Beba Lončar is a Serbian and former Yugoslav actress who made 52 films between 1960 and 1982. Born in Belgrade and raised in the Dorćol neighborhood, she began performing as a child and had speaking bits on TV Belgrade in the late 1950s. She studied acting under Soja Jovanović and made an uncredited film debut in Diližansa snova in 1960. Her break came with Deveti krug, a Holocaust drama whose cast included Boris Dvornik and Dušica Žegarac; the film won the Golden Arena at Pula and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. She became a star in Yugoslavia with Ljubav i moda and Dvoje, then moved to Rome in 1964. Her Italian work included Mauro Bolognini's La donna è una cosa meravigliosa, The Sucker (1965), and Casanova 70 (1965), while she also appeared in the British-Yugoslav adventure The Long Ships (1964). She often played exotic and mysterious seductresses in commedia all'italiana.
83years old
Turns 84 on April 28in 197 days
- Born Belgrade
- Star sign: TaurusThe sign runs April 20 to May 20
- Десанка Лончар (birth name)Also credited as Desanka Lončar and Beba Longar
Movie Career
- Films
- 8
- Career span
- 16 years1964 to 1980
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A role that slipped away
Lončar was cast in The Long Ships as Gerda after another actress already cast in the role abruptly left the set, and director Jack Cardiff chose her as a local replacement because her blonde features fit the Viking woman part.
Early training
Lončar studied acting under director Soja Jovanović, who gave her a film debut as an uncredited bit part in the 1960 film Diližansa snova.
About the name
Lončar was first billed using her nickname Beba instead of her given first name in the 1961 film Dvoje, and she continued using it for the rest of her career.
First role
Lončar's first appearance in Italian cinema came in 1964 when Mauro Bolognini cast her for his segment in La donna è una cosa meravigliosa, and she moved to Rome at twenty-one.
Beba Loncar movies on Netflix
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The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- Brancaleone at the Crusades1970 Adventure, Fantasy, Historyas Berta d'Avignone
IMDb rating 7.22.2K votes
Worked with
Beba Loncar shares two films with Stefania Sandrelli, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Marcello Mastroianni's page
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