Violeta Tomić
Violeta Tomić[Slovenian language|], sometimes known in
Slovenian as Violeta Tomič is a Slovenian television presenter and actress, serving as a deputy in the National Assembly. A member of Party Our Future, founded by Ivan Gale. She was chosen as the lead candidate of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group ahead of the 2019 European Parliament election but was not elected.
Early life
Tomić was born on 22 January 1963 in Sarajevo. Her father was a musician in the Sarajevo National Theatre, and so she opted out of going to kindergarten and instead spent time at rehearsals at the theater which inspired her love for acting. Eventually, her mother and her went to Metlika, where she spent a lot of her life. They then moved again for her high school years to Črnomelj, and she took her entrance exams in Zagreb and Ljubljana. After graduating high school she studied at the Department of Drama at AGRFT in Ljubljana, graduating in 1985. Her very first role was as Jacinta in Ivan Cankar's Sentflorian Valley Scandal. Since then she has studied biodynamic methods of farming created by Rudolf Steiner and Marie Thun, which has led her to attempt to spread awareness of sustainable agriculture.Entertainment career
In 1987, she became employed at the Ljubljana City Theatre, a position she held until 2001, when she became a freelance artist. In the 1980s, she was part of the alternative art collective Neue Slowenische Kunst, which she stated led her to get condemned and monitored by the state security service.Tomić hosted the Slovenian version of The Weakest Link quiz show, Najšibkejši člen.