Dušica Žegarac


Dušica Žegarac was a Serbian film and television actress. She began acting in 1960 and her first appearance was in France Štiglic's film The Ninth Circle, for which she won the Golden Arena for Best Actress at the Pula Film Festival, the Yugoslav national film awards.
She won her second Golden Arena for starring in 's 1971 film .
In 2014, Žegarac's memoir Kao na filmu was released.

Personal

Žegarac married Pedro Francisco de Pina Massano de Amorim in 1970, having met him a year earlier in Belgrade where Portuguese born and raised Massano had moved to for philosophy studies in order to avoid being drafted in the Portuguese Colonial War. An opponent of Portugal's right-wing authoritarian leader António de Oliveira Salazar and his clerical-fascist Estado Novo regime, Massano worked in communist Yugoslavia as a photographer while Žegarac pursued her successful acting career.
The couple's first child, son Francisco Massano, was born in 1973 in Belgrade. A year later, right after the overthrow of Estado Novo and the establishment of the National Salvation Junta, the couple moved to Lisbon where they lived with Massano's parents and had a daughter, Tatiana Massano. Žegarac and Massano divorced in 1975. Žegarac moved back to Belgrade while Massano remained in Lisbon as the two engaged in a bitter and protracted custody battle over their infant children.