Goran Kostić

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