Goran Višnjić

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1972 age 0

   Born

2. 1997 age 25

   CreditThe Peacemaker

3. 1998 age 26

   CreditPractical Magic

   CreditRounders

4. 2005 age 33

   CreditElektra

5. 2010 age 38

   CreditBeginners

6. 2011 age 39

   CreditThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

7. 2013 age 41

   CreditThe Counselor

• CPChristopher Plummer2 titles
• GCGeorge Clooney2 titles
• MGMurphy Guyer2 titles
• NKNicole Kidman2 titles
• HZHans Zimmer1 title
• NDNatalie Dormer1 title
• DSDonald Sumpter1 title
• ASAlan Silvestri1 title
• RWRobin Wright1 title
• CPCCH Pounder1 title

• When somebody is attacking your hometown, and you're just sitting in the basement, you feel really useless. I felt I had to do it to defend my country. That's normal.

  Goran Višnjić, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Every time I perform, I work really hard to give part of myself to the audience. Then I do an interview and I read some story that just isn't true, or someone draws a crazy conclusion about my life, and it's such a betrayal. It hasn't happened here, but in Croatia, I've had to stop reading about myself. I don't think actors mean to be secretive - they just don't want strangers looking through their kitchen window.

  Goran Višnjić, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Easy was, like, spending time with Jennifer on set. Difficult stuff about character is, it was a little bit like just being the only one with no superhuman powers.

  Goran Višnjić, CC BY-SA 4.0

• If a great part comes up and the guy's meant to have an Eastern European accent, great; but if it's a bad part I won't take it.

  Goran Višnjić, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I'm working with a dialect coach, but it's not helping. I want everyone to understand what I am talking about, like 'peritoneal lavage', you know, these medical expressions... I don't want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller.

  Goran Višnjić, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I don't understand the word 'hunk.'

  Goran Višnjić, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

Croatia, United States

Languages

Croatian, English

Years active

1988–

Education

Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb