Goran Kostić

Goran Kostić
Горан Костић
Kostić in 2012
Born	(1971-11-18) 18 November 1971 (age 52) Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1995–present

Goran Kostić (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Костић, born 18 November 1971) is a Serbian actor based in the United Kingdom. He has appeared in supporting roles in a number of Hollywood films.

Early life

Kostić was born on 18 November 1971 to an ethnic Serb family in Sarajevo, Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia.^[1]

Career

He is an actor and producer, known for roles in Taken (2008), and Hannibal Rising (2007).

In 2007, he played the Polish builder Erek in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He appears as Pavel, a Russian PhD student moonlighting as the campus security officer in New Tricks Series 7, episode 2, "It Smells of Books".

He appeared in Angelina Jolie's 2011 film In the Land of Blood and Honey about the Bosnian war where he plays Danijel, a Serb policeman, with co-star, Zana Marjanović. The film was Jolie's directorial debut.^[2]

Filmography

Film roles
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Career Girls	Student	Uncredited
2001	The Fourth Angel	Voice	Uncredited
2003	Inside Outside Lydia's Head	Zoltan
2004	The Face at the Window	Davor
2005	The Truth About Love	Chris Webb
2005	Benjamin's Struggle	SS Guard 1	Short film
2006	Children of Men	Bexhill Market Hustler
2007	Hannibal Rising	Kazys 'Pot Watcher' Porvik
2007	Extraordinary Rendition	Radovan
2007	The Hunting Party	Srdjan
2008	Taken	Gregor
2008	The Crew	Lepi
2009	L'aide au Retour	Miroslav	Short film
2009	Wish 143	Milan	Short film
2010	The Duel	Voice
2010	Of Gods and Men	Le Chef de Chantier
2010	Caged	Le Serb Prisonnier
2011	In the Land of Blood and Honey	Danijel
2013	The Last Days on Mars	Marko Petrovic
2015	Orion	Magician
2015	Hiljadarka (Thousand)	Rudar - zafrkant
2016	The Zookeeper's Wife	Mr. Kinszerbaum
2018	Ant-Man and the Wasp	Anitolov

Television roles
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Ghostbusters of East Finchley	Claus	1 episode
1998	Out of Hours	Misha	Miniseries
2001	Sword of Honour	Voice	TV movie; uncredited
2001	Always and Everyone	Voice	1 episode
2001	Table 12	Rose Seller	Episode: "Aphrodisiac"; uncredited
2001	Band of Brothers	Prisoner with Corpse	Miniseries; Episode: "Why We Fight"
2001	Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)	Sergei	Episode: "The Glorious Butranekh"
2001	The Bill	Milos	Episode: "Paint it Black"
2002	Ultimate Force	Eli	Episode: "Breakout"
2003	Casualty	Sali	Episode: "Flight"
2003	Final Demand	Cheddar	TV movie
2003	Days That Shook the World	Gavrilo Princip (voice)	Episode: "The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand/The Death of Hitler"
2003-2004	Grease Monkeys	Ezekiel	Main cast
2004	Red Cap	Voice	Episode: "Betrayed"; uncredited
2004	Sex Traffic	Voice	Miniseries; uncredited
2004	Foyle's War	Jan Komorowski	Episode: "The French Drop"
2004	Murder Prevention	Paul Whitley	3 episodes
2004	The Bill	Zacchadeli	2 episodes
2005	Sea of Souls	Voice	2 episodes; uncredited
2005	Comedy Lab	Ivan	Episode: "Speeding"
2005	Spooks	Bodyguard	Episode: "Road Trip"
2006	Ultimate Force	Sgt. Pudovkin	Episode: "The Changing of the Guard"
2006	Afterlife	David	Episode: "Mirrorball"
2007	EastEnders	Erek	6 episodes
2009	The Bill	Marek Jankowski	2 episodes
2010	The Deep	Zubov	Miniseries; 3 episodes
2010	New Tricks	Pavel Illich	Episode: "It Smells Like Books"
2012	Covert Affairs	Alexei Vershinin	Episode: "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide"
2014	The Assets	Victor Cherkashin	Miniseries; 5 episodes
2015	Legends	Ivanenko	3 episodes
2018	Bliss	Vladislav	Main cast
2018	Genius	Lvovich	Episode: "Picasso: Chapter Seven"
2018	Jack Ryan	Ansor Dudayev	Recurring

Video game roles
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Command & Conquer: Red Alert	Russian Officer
2002	Hitman 2: Silent Assassin	Additional voices	Uncredited
2008	Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3	Russian Officer

References

^ "Casting Authenticity – Angelina Jolie's "In the Land of Blood and Honey"". Toonari Post. Archived from the original on 20 June 2012. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
^ Interview Magazine article.