Slaven "Slavko" Došlo is a Serbian actor who has won awards for his stage and screen performances. The Serbian actor is best known for highly praised roles in Pored Mene / Next to Me and Panama.
Biography
In November 2016, Slaven received his first international award for acting, in the form of an Angela Award from Ireland's Subtitle European Film Festival. Slaven was named Actor of the Year in the first ‘League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’ from Serbia's Men's Health magazine, crowning a summer of success with two box office hits and film festival awards. Within months of graduating from Belgrade's Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Slaven was enjoying international media attention at the Cannes Film Festival for his powerful lead in Panama, a thriller about sexual politics in the social media age, from Serbian director Pavle Vucković. Slaven took the lead role in the Serbia's biggest domestic film of 2015, Pored Mene, which topped the Serbian box office for a month. The ensemble drama from writer-director Stevan Filipovic was named Best Film at the PulaInternational Film Festival and won the Young Audience Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Slaven's stand-out performance as a sharp-witted college boy who enjoys Serbian cinema's first teenage gay kiss attracted overwhelming critical acclaim at home and abroad, including international trade title, The Hollywood Reporter. The film played to packed houses at the Raindance Film Festival in the UK and at international festivals. At the same time, Slaven showed dramatic intrigue and convincingly hot sex scenes in the contemporary thriller, Panama. Slaven stars in Vlaznost, a captivating drama from director Serbian Nikola Ljuca, which won the Best Film Award at the Belgrade Film Festival FEST in February 2016. In April 2016, Slaven signed on to play a new recruit in RTS TV series Vojna Akademija. As well as numerous local productions, Slaven has performed in musical theatre at Belgrade's renowned Terazije Theatre in productions of Zorba the Greek and Glavo Luda, based on the songs of Zdravko Colic. Slaven studied under the tutorage of the esteemed actress Mirjana Karanović. He joined the Novi SadYouth Theatre in January 2015, starring in shows such as Encyclopaedia of Lost Time. For his performance in the Special Sterija Award-winning play by Filip Vujošević, Life Stands Still, Life Goes On, at Belgrade's Bitef Theatre, in 2015, Slaven received the Dara Calenic Foundation Award for Best Young Actor.