Known For: Croatian-American actress and singer (1955–2021)
Category: Actresses
Occupation: actor, stage actor, film actor, television actor, singer
Country: Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
City: Zagreb
Date of Birth: Wednesday, 07 September 1955
Died: 2021-01-20 00:00:00 in Q65
Mira Furlan was a Croatian-American actress and singer. Internationally, she was best known for her roles as the Minbari Ambassador Delenn in the science fiction television series Babylon 5 (1993–1998), and as Danielle Rousseau in Lost (2004–2010), and also appeared in multiple award-winning films such as When Father Was Away on Business (1985) and The Abandoned (2010).
| BirthPlace | Zagreb |
| Education | Q2618673 |
| Spouses | Goran Gajić |
| Website | https://mirafurlan.net/ |
| Wikipedia | Mira_Furlan |
Furlan was born on 7 September 1955 to an intellectual and academic family that included a large number of university professors in Zagreb, PR Croatia, which at the time was one of the six constituent republics of the former Yugoslavia. She was born to Branka Weil, a mother who was of Croatian-Jewish descent, and Ivan Furlan, a father of mixed Slovene-Croat descent. As a child, Furlan was obsessed with American rock and roll music. She became interested in acting as a teenager. Furlan graduated from the Academy for Dramatic Arts in Zagreb with Bachelor of Fine Arts in theatre. Simultaneously, she took language classes at the university's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, becoming fluent in English, German, and French.
