Anica was born in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia. She has graduated from the University of Arts Faculty of Dramatic Arts in the class of Predrag Bajčetić.

She has won: the "Sterija" award in 1991, the Golden Arena for Best Actress at the Pula Film Festival 1988, Carica Teodora award (twice) at the Film Festival in Niš, the Zoranov brk award, the Golden Turkey at the "Comedy Days" in Jagodina 1992, First Prize of the International Film festival in Vichy, Bavarian film - best young actress, the most prestigious German actor award Goldene Kamera, awards of Belgrade in 2008, the Award for Best Actress of SOFEST, AFUN award and others.

Selected filmography

    Reflections (Već viđeno) (1987)
    My Uncle's Legacy (Život sa stricem) (1988)
    The Meeting Point (Sabirni centar) (1989)
    Kako je propao Rock 'n' Roll (1989)
    Rosamunde (de) (1990)
    Tito and Me (Tito i ja) (1992)
    The Black Bomber (Crni bombarder) (1992)
    Beck Polismördaren Sjöwall and Wahlöö (1993)
    Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit (1998)
    Wheels (Točkovi) (1999)
    Nataša (2002)
    Ivkova slava (2005)
    The Trap (Klopka) (2007)
    Ljubav i drugi zločini (2008)
    The woman with a broken nose (Žena sa slomljenim nosem) (2010)
    Enklava (2014)

He graduated from the Academy for theater, film, radio and television. Has starred in over 40 films and numerous theater productions. He was the head of the National Theatre in Belgrade from 21 January 1993 to 10 May 1997. In 1980 he won the "Golden Arena" for the role of Miško in "Ko to tamo peva" and in 2001 award "Paul Vuisić" which is given to the actor for Lifetime Achievement.He also received the  "Golden Chain" award for lifetime achievement in 2012.

He made his screen debut in 1953, but his first truly memorable role was in the 1957 film Nije bilo uzalud. In this film, like in many others, he played the villain, but he turned out to be the most memorable character. Later he built on this reputation and continued to play important historical and larger-than-life characters.

He also made history by uttering an obscenity in one of the final scenes of 1964 World War I epic Marš na Drinu, which was the first such instance in the history of former Yugoslav cinema.

Born to the family of a coal miner, his acting talent was discovered very early and he won a scholarship with respected director Bojan Stupica. Samardžić was educated at the Belgrade Drama Arts Academy. After graduation, he obtained a role in Igre na skelama (1961).

Samardžić was a member of the Central Committee of Yugoslav Communist Party in late 1980s.

In the 1960s, he established himself as one of the most recognisable and popular stars of former Yugoslav cinema.

In the 1990s, he and his son Dragan Samardžić founded a film production company. Despite break-up of Yugoslavia and UN sanctions against Serbia, the company made many popular and commercial successful films.

In August 1995, he received Life Achievement Award "Pavle Vujisić" for his roles in Yugoslav cinematography.

He has been married to Mirjana Samardžić since 1960. Nicknamed Smoki, he has been credited as Ljubisa Samardjic, Luba Samardy, Ljubisa Samardzic-Smoki, and Smoki Samardì.

• The Climber (1966)
• Battle of Neretva (1969)
• In Love, Every Pleasure Has Its Pain (1971)
• The Tiger (1978)
• Premeditated Murder (1995)
• Yu (2003)

Ljiljana Blagojević  born on 5 November 1955 in Belgrade, Serbia is a Serbian theater, film, and television actress. She is married to Serbian playwright Siniša Kovačević; together, they have one daughter named Kalina Kovačević (sh), who is also an actress.

Aleksandar "Saša" Petrović (14 January 1929 – 20 August 1994) was an acclaimed Yugoslav film director who was one of the leading European directors in the 1960s and one of the major figures of the Yugoslav Black Wave. Two of his films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film : Three in 1966 and I Even Met Happy Gypsies (Feather Gatherers) in 1967.“I Even Met Happy Gypsies” (“Skupljaci perja”) is the first movie that presents the existence of Gypsies in society and in everyday life. It is also the first full-feature film where Gypsies speak their own language, Roma. Most roles are interpreted by real Gypsies; this is their movie. “As a child, I observed them and saw in these people faith and irrationality,” said Petrović “I Even Met Happy Gypsies” won the FIPRESCI Prize and the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival. It also received a nomination for a Golden Globe.In 1967 Petrović was a member of the jury at the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.

One of his most famous films is It Rains in My Village. Petrović found inspiration for this film in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Possessed.The film was nominated for a Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival

In 1973, Petrović was forced to leave his post at the Belgrade Film Academy after being accused of holding anti-communist views by the communist government of Yugoslavia. In late December 1989 he joined the founding committee of the Democratic Party in Serbia, the first opposition anti-communist party in Serbia.

After finishing school in Kikinda, he enrolled and graduated philosophy at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy in 1955. He was at the head of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre from 1985–1999, and before that he had worked as a dramaturge since 1956, as well in Atelje 212 since 1967 to 1985. Since establishment in 1967 to date, Jovan is the artistic director and selector of BITEF festival, longest in the history of international theatre festivals. Since 2001 to 2007, he was the President of the National Commission of Yugoslavia, then Serbia, in UNESCO. He wrote the plays Room for four and House of Silence (with Miroslav Belović), scripts for the Vladimir Slijepčević film Real state of situation, Ward, Where after the rain (shown in Venice, Moscow and Pula), radio plays Windy Roads (in German language, Radio Hamburg), Mechanical secretary and others. Adapted for the stage of The Damned Yard by Ivo Andrić, and together with Belović Discovery, by Dobrica Ćosić. He is the author of novels, several collections of poems, theatrological essays, books of memories, an anthology of plays (Serbian contemporary drama in English, British and American contemporary drama, The shortest plays in the world, etc...) and vocabularies. He has translated plays by Christopher Fry, Bertolt Brecht, Jean Genet, Stoppard, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Marber and the musical Hair. Writer of columns in NIN magazine, (named "Word of the week", since 1986 to this day), two columns a week in the Blic newspaper, (named "Pozorištarije" and "With hands in pockets") and theater news in the Ludus theatre newspapers. As a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, he was the first person who publicly called for decriminalisation of male same-sex relations ("sodomy laws") in the 1980s. He speaks German, English, French, Spanish and Italian, and studied Chinese.

Jelisaveta "Seka" Sablić, is an awarded Serbian Jewish actress. She is named one of the best Serbian actresses in history. Seka Sablić has performed on all theatre stages in Belgrade and has achieved great parts in TV and film, and is the winner of almost all major theatre awards in Serbia and former Yugoslavia.

Her son, Stefan Sablić, is a theatre director, musician, and documentary film maker.

Marko Nikolić is Serbian movie and theatre actor. He graduated on Academy for movie, theatre, radio and television in Belgrade. From 1970. Marko is a mamber of National theatre.