Vanja Janketić

Біографія

He was born on December 23, 1950 in Belgrade. He led around a hundred shows and acted in about forty of them. He was an actor in the Yugoslav Drama Theater, leading shows and occasionally performing in them in the Zvezdara Theater and the Atelier 212. He joined the Yugoslav Drama Theater on a permanent basis on June 1, 1979, before performing in the play "Happy Days or Tarelkin's Death" directed by Branko Pleše. He performed around 1800 shows of Dušan Kovačević's in the Zvezdara Theater. He acted in the plays "Claustrophobic Comedy" in 1987 and 2015, "The Professional," "Rabelaisian Tragedy," "General Rehearsal of Suicide," "Dr. Shuster," "Lari Thompson: Tragedy of a Youth," and "Life in Tight Shoes." He retired on December 27, 2013, and passed away on April 3, 2022 from lung cancer. His last show that he directed and acted in was "Claustrophobic Comedy" on March 27, 2022, a few days before his death.