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Mirjana Joković (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирјана Јоковић; born 24 November 1967 in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia [now Serbia]) is a Serbian film and stage actress, best known for her role as Natalija Zovkov in Emir Kusturica's Underground (1995). She emigrated from her native country when she was at peak of her fame and currently is Director of Performance for Acting and an acting teacher in the Theater Faculty of the California Institute of the Arts near Los Angeles. She spent her early years in Zambia, where her father was an industrial engineer. She graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade and began to perform at the National Theater and the Yugoslav Drama Theater in Belgrade and in films and television. She made her acting debut in the drama series Put na jug (Southbound). She was a regular character in the popular Yugoslav television series "Grey Home", and in 1988 she was named Best Leading Actress at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival and Best International Actress at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain. n 1989, she starred with Daniel Day Lewis in the Argentine-British film "Eversmile, New Jersey" directed by Carlos Sorin and won best actress for the role at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. in 1991 she played the lead in the German film The Serbian Girl, then she moved to the United States, though she continued to make films in Europe. She starred in "Vukovar" (1994) which earned her the Yugoslav Best Actress Award. In 1995 she played the female lead in the film "Underground", directed by Emir Kusturica, which won the Palme d'Or for best film at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995 and the New York Critics Circle Award for best foreign film. She also made Three Summer Days (1997), for which she received another Yugoslav Best Actress Award, and Cabaret Balkan, which won a Special Venice Film Festival Award in 1999. Her career in the United States began in theater, as she appeared in the off-Broadway production of "Mud, River Stone" by Lynn Nottage at the Playwrights Horizon Theater. In 2019 she starred in the Canadian film Easy Land.
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