Angela Bundalovic

{{Short description|Danish actress (born 1995)}}

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Angela Bundalovic (born 1995) is a Danish-Serbian{{Cite web |title=CopenHagenDoesNotExist |url=https://trustnordisk.com/fileadmin/user_upload/movies/TN106/Stills/CopenHagenDoesNotExist_PressKit.pdf |page=9}} actress. She is best known for her role as Beatrice in the Netflix television series The Rain (2018), Nadja in Limboland (2020), Miu in Copenhagen Cowboy (2022), and Ida in Copenhagen Does Not Exist (2023). She won the Lecce European Film Festival Best European Actor/Actress award in 2023.

Life and career

Angela Bundalovic studied dance and choreography at the Danish National School of Performing Arts (Den Danske Scenekunstskole).{{cite web|url= https://ddsks.dk/da/studerende/angela-bundalovic |title= Angela Bundalovic |publisher=Den Danske Scenekunstskole (Danish National School of Performing Arts) |year=2018 |access-date=11 May 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180512113228/https://ddsks.dk/da/studerende/angela-bundalovic |url-status= dead|archive-date= 12 May 2018}}

She made her screen acting debut as Dommeren's daughter in the film Dark Horse, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4278764/year/2005.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Dark Horse |access-date=12 May 2009|work=festival-cannes.com |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121011125423/https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4278764/year/2005.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 11 October 2012}} Her next film role was as the seven-year-old Sidsel in the 2006 short film Blood Sisters. In 2018, she played Beatrice in the first season of the Netflix series The Rain.{{cite web|url= https://media.netflix.com/en/press-releases/the-rain-netflixs-first-danish-original-series-starts-production-in-denmark-1 |title='The Rain', Netflix's first Danish original series starts production in Denmark |publisher= Netflix media |year=2017|access-date=12 May 2018}}{{cite web|url= https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/the-rain-review-netflix/559439/ |title=The Rain Is a Taut Dystopian Thriller |publisher= The Atlantic |year=2018|access-date=12 May 2018}}

Bundalovic returned to the stage during the 2018/2019 season as a dancer in Frédéric Geis's Uranus and in Ingri Fiksdal's Shadows of Tomorrow.{{cite web |url=http://www.allthatmanagement.dk/atm/klient.php?kid=162&tid=2&lang=en&p=cv |title= Angela Bundalovic |date=2019 |work= allthatmanagement.dk |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200814225059/http://www.allthatmanagement.dk/atm/klient.php?kid=162&tid=2&lang=en&p=cv |url-status= dead |archive-date= 14 August 2020}}(previous agent) Bundalovic plays the junkie Nadja in the 2020 Danish television series Limboland.{{cite web |url= https://www.avclub.com/tv/reviews/limboland-2020 |title=Limboland |work= avclub.com |date=2020}}

In 2022, Bundalovic took the lead role in the Nicolas Winding Refn supernatural crime series Copenhagen Cowboy.{{cite web |url= https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/copenhagen-cowboy-long-winding-road|title=Copenhagen Cowboy: a long and Winding road |date=15 September 2022|publisher=bfi.org.uk}} The series was released on Netflix in 2023.{{cite web |url= https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81402987|title=Copenhagen Cowboy |date= 2023|publisher=netflix.com}}

In 2023, she played the lead role in the Martin Skovbjerg Jensen-directed film Copenhagen Does Not Exist.{{cite web |url= https://cineuropa.org/film/437173/ |title=Copenhagen Does Not Exist|author=Martin Skovbjerg|work=cineuropa.org |date=2022|access-date=22 November 2024 }} Bundalovic won the Best European Actor/Actress award at the Lecce European Film Festival for her performance.{{cite web |url= https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/452862/ |title=Lecce 2023 Awards |author= Vittoria Scarpa|work=cineuropa.org |date=20 November 2023}}

Filmography

=Film=

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Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

2005

|Dark Horse

| Dommeren's daughter

|

2006

| Blood Sisters

| Sidsel

| Short

2023

| Copenhagen Does Not Exist

| Ida

|

=Television=

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|+ {{Sronly|List of television appearances, with year, title, and role shown}}

Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

2018

| The Rain

| Beatrice

| 7 episodes

2020

| Limboland

| Nadja

| 8 episodes

2022

| Copenhagen Cowboy

| Miu

| 6 episodes

=Music videos=

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|+ {{Sronly|List of music videos appearances, with year, title, and role shown}}

scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Artist

! scope="col" | Title

! scope="col" | Role

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2019

| FRAADS

| "Blinker"

| Main female{{cite web|url= https://vimeo.com/366788098 |title= Fraads – Blinker|publisher=vimeo.com |date=16 October 2019|access-date=14 September 2022}}

| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWsN5T34yv0 "Blinker" music video by FRAADS]

2021

| Dizzy Mizz Lizzy

| "Amelia"

| Amelia {{cite web|url= https://filmekhd.miamicountyprobatejuvenile.org/filmhd/899725/dizzy-mizz-lizzy-amelia-filmek-hd/ |title= Dizzy Mizz Lizzy – Amelia (2021) Full Movie HD|publisher=filmekhd.miamicountyprobatejuvenile.org/ |date=31 August 2021|archive-date=14 September 2022 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220914165608/https://filmekhd.miamicountyprobatejuvenile.org/filmhd/899725/dizzy-mizz-lizzy-amelia-filmek-hd/ }}

| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgNc2D3B0zg "Amelia" music video by Dizzy Mizz Lizzy]

2024

| Metronomy + Naima Bock + Joshua Idehen

| "With Balance"

| Main female{{cite web|title= Making of "With Balance"|url=https://vimeo.com/943666037 |work= Lucas Reis on vimeo.com |date=7 May 2024}}

| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srwcmiV9pVw "With Balance" music video by Metronomy]

Awards

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! Year

! Award

! Category

! Work

! Result

! Ref

2023

| Lecce European Film Festival

| Best European Actor/Actress

| Copenhagen Does Not Exist

| {{won}}

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References

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