Marijana Jankovic

Born in Montenegro, Marijana Jankovic is a Danish actress who graduated from the Danish National School of Theatre in 2006. She landed her first feature film role in 2007 as Nina in Pernille Fischer Christensen's Dancers, then appeared opposite Nikolaj Lie Kaas in The Candidate. Her performance in Christoffer Boe's Everyting Will be Fine (2010) brought nominations for a Bodil and a Zulu Award, and the same year she starred in Boe's Beast, winning the 2012 Fantasia Award for Best Actress. She starred in Anders Walter's Academy Award-winning short Helium (2014). On stage, she played the lead in Carmen at Nørrebro Theatre in 2009 and took the role of Electra at the Betty Nansen Theatre in 2010, a production seen at the Stobi Theatre Festival in Macedonia. Her television credits include The Protectors, Lulu & Leon, Rita, Those Who Kill, and The Legacy, and she appeared in the films Fang Rung and Fuglene Over Sundet.