Career
Born in Belgrade, Dravić was involved with the performing arts from the age of four: first with dance and later classical ballet. In 1959, while in high school, director František Čap saw her on the cover of a youth magazine in a ballet dancers group photo and decided on the spot to approach her about being in his film Vrata ostaju otvorena. After appearing in few more films she decided to pursue acting full-time and successfully enrolled in Belgrade"s Dramatic Arts Academy.
This was the moment that sent her on the way to becoming Yugoslavia"s first and arguably the biggest female movie star.
Milena Dravić continued with long and prolific career during which she showed great talent and versatility. She was equally memorable and believable as the tragic heroine in state-sponsored World World War II epics, eccentric protagonist of experimental arthouse films like WR: Mysteries of the Organism and romantic comedies.
She especially excelled in the latter during the 1970s and 1980s. Saint Milena Dravić has been married three times.
Her latest husband was Dragan Nikolić, a Serbian actor with whom she had co-hosted the popular 1970s television program Obraz uz obraz.