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Mira Furlan

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Overview

Mira Furlan (7 September 1955 – 20 January 2021) was a Croatian-American/Yugoslav-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). Early life 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 Socialist Federal Republic of 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.

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Notable quotes

“I look at the stars. It's a clear night and the Milky Way seems so near. That's where I'll be going soon. "We're all star stuff', I suddenly remember Delenn's line from Joe's script. Not a bad prospect. I am not afraid. In the meantime, let me close my eyes and sense the beauty around me. And take that breath under the dark sky full of stars. Breathe in. Breathe out. That's all.”
— Quote from Furlan's website and social networks on the day of her death.
“I was one of those who really believed in the so-called brotherhood and unity, but not only of our peoples, but of all the people of the world. And I still believe that this is the only option for the survival of the human race. Everything else leads to violence, suffering and destruction. I don't understand nationalism, I don't vibrate on that string.”
— Interview (2012)
“Rulers try to keep their subjects in the belief that they have no choice but to do so. And what if they do? What if it is still possible to make a choice in a situation in which there is supposedly no choice? This very idea is dangerous to the system and therefore subversive. But this very thought is the path to freedom.”
— Quote Article in Serbian language (2023)

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Notable quotes

“I look at the stars. It's a clear night and the Milky Way seems so near. That's where I'll be going soon. "We're all star stuff', I suddenly remember Delenn's line from Joe's script. Not a bad prospect. I am not afraid. In the meantime, let me close my eyes and sense the beauty around me. And take that breath under the dark sky full of stars. Breathe in. Breathe out. That's all.”
— Quote from Furlan's website and social networks on the day of her death.
“I was one of those who really believed in the so-called brotherhood and unity, but not only of our peoples, but of all the people of the world. And I still believe that this is the only option for the survival of the human race. Everything else leads to violence, suffering and destruction. I don't understand nationalism, I don't vibrate on that string.”
— Interview (2012)
“Rulers try to keep their subjects in the belief that they have no choice but to do so. And what if they do? What if it is still possible to make a choice in a situation in which there is supposedly no choice? This very idea is dangerous to the system and therefore subversive. But this very thought is the path to freedom.”
— Quote Article in Serbian language (2023)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Mira Furlan (7 September 1955 – 20 January 2021) was a Croatian-American/Yugoslav-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). Early life 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 Socialist Federal Republic of 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.

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