Branko Tomovic

Biography

Date of Birth 17 June 1977, Münster, Germany Height 6' 1" (1.85 m) Mini Biography Branko Tomovic was born on June 17, 1977, in Muenster, Germany, though his actual origin is from the Carpathians in Serbia. His parents emigrated in the 70s from the Golubac Fortress area on the Danube and Branko was raised between Germany and Serbia before he studied acting at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York City. Tomovic was first seen on the big screen in the lead role of the award winning American Film Institute/Sundance drama Remote Control (2001), for which he received the OmU-Award at the Potsdam Film Festival. Now currently settled in London, with his dark, brooding looks he has appeared in striking roles on British Television. He played the creepy main suspect Antoni Pricha, the Morgue Man, in Jack the Ripper thriller "Whitechapel" (2009), the pyromaniac Junky-Henchman Marek Lisowski in the final episodes of "A Touch of Frost" (1992) and Polish fighter pilot Miroslaw Feric in WW2 drama The Forgotten Few (2010) (TV). He has been named "One to watch" by Moviescope Magazine and worked with internationally respected film directors as Ken Loach, Sönke Wortmann and Paul Greengrass. IMDb Mini Biography By: J.M. Trade Mark Red birthmark Trivia Studied acting at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York City. Besides English he also speaks perfect German and Serbo-Croatian, some Russian and knows how to curse in French. Is of Serbian descent. He is also a talented painter. Named 'One to Watch' by movieScope Magazine in 2008. His red birthmark resembles the map of the Bermuda Triangle. The Slavic name Branko hails in Eastern Europe from Bran Castle, also known as Dracula's Castle and means 'Glorious defender'. Personal Quotes [movieScope Magazine September 2008, on what kind of roles attract him] I'm usually drawn to darker, grittier material. I'm attracted by broken people, tormented characters and lost souls. I usually find myself playing the "guys with sad eyes". Instead of going to a shrink you can let that all out in front of the camera and still hide behind the name of your character. A dream for me would be portraying Nikola Tesla, the Serbian inventor.