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Melita Jurisic is an Australian actress.
Jurisic was born in Croatia and migrated to Australia with her family at age five. She began her career as part of the Lighthouse Company (Playhouse) in Adelaide.
Career
= Screen, stage and music
=Jurisic's screen roles include a lead (as Dr. Eva) in the ABC TV series Something in the Air, playing the title character in the 1987 film The Tale of Ruby Rose, the 1986 TV movie Hunger, Croatian film Transatlantik in 1998, 1997's The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Mad Max: Fury Road Bordertown and The Petrov Affair. She is also known for her role as Dr. Magda in the television series The Flying Doctors.
Her stage roles are numerous, and include Macbeth with the Sydney Theatre Company in 2014, I Am A Miracle at the Malthouse in 2015 and Three Sisters at the Sydney Opera House in 2001. Internationally she appeared in a number of Barrie Kosky's productions at Schauspielhaus Wien in Vienna, Austria, including Medea.
Jurisic is also the singer and songwriter of Viennese band Metalycée. Their first album "It Is Not" was voted one of the ten best Austrian albums of the decade.
Filmography
= Film
== Television
=Stage
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Melita Jurisic at IMDb
Melita Jurisic at AusStage
Biographical cuttings on Melita Jurisic, actress, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals at the National Library of Australia
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- Melita Jurisic
- Jurišić
- The Tale of Ruby Rose
- The House of Bernarda Alba
- Bordertown (Australian TV series)
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- The Flying Doctors
- Sheila Florance
- Bell Shakespeare
- Nimrod Theatre Company
