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Zlatko Burić
Burić at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	(1953-05-13) 13 May 1953 (age 71) Osijek, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia (now Croatia)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1981–present
Spouse	Dragana Milutinović ​(m. 1998)​

Zlatko Burić (born 13 May 1953) is a Danish-Croatian actor. He is best known for his performances in the Pusher film trilogy (1996–2005) and the films 2012 (2009) and Triangle of Sadness (2022). For the latter, he won a European Film Award and a Guldbagge Award.

Biography

Burić was born in Osijek where he was educated at the Dramski Studio in 1972. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Burić belonged to the experimental theater group Kugla Glumište (formed in 1975) together with Željko Zorica-Šiš and Damir Bartol-Indoš.

Burić moved to Denmark in 1981 where he married Sonja Hindkjær, with whom he has three children. After their divorce, he married Dragana Milutinović, on 7 October 1998. He has appeared in several successful Danish films from the 1990s and 2000s, frequently appearing in films directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, including Bleeder and Milo in The Pusher Trilogy. For his role in Pusher, he won the Bodil Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1997.

In 2009, Burić had a large supporting role in the apocalyptic film 2012, as Yuri Karpov, a Russian billionaire. In 2012, he reprised his role as Milo in the British remake of Pusher.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

1. Piil 2000, p. 454.
2. "1997". Bodilprisen (in Danish). 19 October 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
3. "A Crime Drama in Need of a Push". NPR.org. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
4. "Pusher | The Village Voice". www.villagevoice.com. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
5. "'Pusher' review: Crime doesn't pay". SFChronicle.com. 25 October 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
6. Dargis, Manohla (25 October 2012). "Cocaine Peddler Pays a Bloody Price". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
7. Whittaker, Richard (18 April 2019). "Singing a Musical Fairytale in Teen Spirit". Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
8. "GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES". Pula Film Festival. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
9. Stojiljković, Marko (27 July 2023). "Review: Good Times, Bad Times". Cineuropa. Retrieved 5 September 2023.

Sources

• Piil, M. (2000). Gyldendals filmguide: Danske film fra A til Z (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark: Gyldendal. ISBN 978-87-00-47806-0. OCLC 47051997. Retrieved 28 June 2021.

External links

• Zlatko Burić at IMDb

• 1953 births
• 20th-century Danish male actors
• 21st-century Danish male actors
• Best Supporting Actor Bodil Award winners
• Danish male film actors
• Danish male television actors
• Danish people of Croatian descent
• Living people
• Actors from Osijek
• Immigrants to Denmark
• Yugoslav emigrants