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She is remembered as Danielle Rousseau, a French scientist who had been shipwrecked on the mysterious island in the series 16 years before the protagonists. The actress Mira Furlan died on January 20, 2021, at the age of 67, without the cause being disclosed. “Mira was a good and kind woman, an incredibly talented artist and a friend to everyone on the ‘Babylon 5’ cast and crew, and we are all devastated by the news,” wrote J. Michael Straczynski, creator of this science series. fiction, in which he also participated.

Born on September 7, 1955, in Zagreb, Croatia, then part of Yugoslavia,  Mira Furlan was part of a Jewish family. She started her acting career as a member of the Croatian National Theater and frequently appeared in Yugoslav films and series. He had a very prominent role in Dad is on a business trip , with which Emir Kusturica won the Palme d’Or in Cannes, where he was Ankica Vidmar, lover of the father of the leading child, during the hard years of the time when the dictator Tito of Yugoslavia broke with Stalin.

When the war in the Balkans broke out, she emigrated with her husband, Goran Gajic, director of feature films such as Intimate Circle,  to the United States. There her thick accent was a problem to recover her career, but she got a job, first in the telefilm My Antonia , with Jason Robards , and later as a voice actress in the animated series Spider-Man , from 1997. But she began to stand out as Delenn , ambassador of the Minbari, in Babylon 5 , despite the fact that her character wore tons of makeup.

Next , Mira Furlan  triumphed as the aforementioned Danielle Rousseau, in Lost , an unprecedented phenomenon worldwide. However, she ended up disappointed, because she did not like the ending of her character. “For me it was not a great experience because I invested a lot in Danielle, I thought that at last they gave me a character with depth, complexity, she was brilliant, psychologically unstable, mysterious, indefinable; anything could happen with her. But in the end, it didn’t happen nothing,” he said in an interview. “There are many reasons why it was like that. I wish they had more love and respect, not for me, but for her character and her story. It ended abruptly, and I feel like it didn’t come to a close.”

At the end of the fiction, he did not receive many offers. “I am part of three minorities: I am a foreigner, a woman and I am old”, she complained. Despite everything, she combined the role of her in several seasons of the television sitcom  A Pinch of Magic , with films in her native Croatia. At the time of her death, some title was pending release, such as the drama  Burning at Both Ends , alongside Cary Elwes .

He is survived by Gajić and Marko Lav Gajić, the only child of the couple.

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