Jelena Jovanova


Jelena Jovanova Perić is a Macedonian actress.

Biography

Jelena Jovanova was born in SR Bosnia and Herzegovina to a Macedonian father from Štip and a Bosnian Serb mother from Prijedor. She was raised in North Macedonia and graduated from The Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje. Member of Macedonian National Theater since 2006, she has featured in various large productions at the theater since.

Career

Her big screen debut was in Juanita Wilson's As If I Am Not There, which has been selected as the Irish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.
In 2010, she was cast in Angelina Jolie's directorial debut In the Land of Blood and Honey, nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 69th Golden Globe Awards.

Personal life

She is married to Stjepan Perić, and they have two children.

Filmography

As If I Am Not There In the Land of Blood and Honey The Third Half Skopje Remix Ckopa

Television

Tajne as Marina Franić

Selected Stage Roles

Chicago as Roxie Hart Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as HoneyPush Up 1-3 as SabineTroilus and Cressida as Helen of TroyTwig in the Wind as MagdaHasanaginica as HasanaginicaSexual Perversity in Chicago as DeborahA Clockwork Orange as AlexThe Decameron as FilomenaDundo Maroje as PetrunjelaDon Quixote as DulcineaClass Enemy as IronMiss Julie as Miss Julie