Lidija Vukićević

Lidija Vukićević (Serbian Cyrillic: Лидија Вукићевић; born 20 July 1962) is a Serbian film and TV actress and politician.

Lidija Vukićević
Лидија Вукићевић
Vukićević presenting the Zbilja magazine's lifetime literary achievement award in March 2006.
Member of the National Assembly of Serbia
In office
June 2007 – May 2012
Personal details
Born (1962-07-20) 20 July 1962
Kraljevo, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
Political partySerbian Radical Party (SRS) (2004–2012)
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1991; div. 2000)​
Children2
ResidenceBelgrade, Serbia
OccupationActress, politician

From 2004 until 2012, she was also politically involved with the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), serving as their MP in the Serbian parliament from 2007 until 2012.[1]

Acting career

Best known for playing Violeta, daughter of the central Popadić family on the hugely popular Bolji život soap opera, Vukićević's acting career peaked throughout the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s. She originates from the Vasojevići clan.

Her career in movies was launched in 1985 when she got cast in Žikina dinastija, the seventh installment of the popular folksy comedy film series Lude godine. Being 22 at the time, Vukićević played the role of sexy housemaid Lilika.

This exposure led to similar roles in other movies of the same genre such as Špijun na štiklama and Vampiri su među nama. In all of these movies she was mostly typecast as a ditzy sexpot.

Political career

In 2004, Vukićević joined the opposition Serbian Radical Party (SRS), a political organization whose leader Vojislav Šešelj had already been detained in The Hague for over a year, awaiting trial at the international criminal tribunal. In his absence, the party that won 27.62% of the popular vote at the latest parliamentary election and held 82 seats, more than any other individual party in Serbia at the time, was led by its high-ranking officials Tomislav Nikolić, Aleksandar Vučić, and Dragan Todorović.

Vukićević became the party's MP in 2007 following the parliamentary elections.[2][3] The following year, in September 2008, when the SRS went through a bitter split with many of its members including top-ranking officials Nikolić and Vučić left to form the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), Vukićević decided to stay loyal to the SRS.

Along with a significant number of prominent party members, she left the SRS following the 2012 elections where it won only 4.62% of the popular vote, below the 5% threshold, meaning it failed to obtain any parliamentary seats.[4] Reportedly, Šešelj's personnel decisions following the election fiasco, such as naming Vjerica Radeta as the new party vice-president, precipitated the mass exodus from the SRS.[5]

Personal life

During the early 1990s, Vukićević married Red Star Belgrade footballer Mitar Mrkela. The couple divorced in 2000. They have a son Andrej Mrkela, born in 1992, who is also a professional footballer and currently plays for Eskişehirspor.

In the early 2000s, she was reportedly in a relationship with the former Chief of the General Staff of Yugoslav Army Nebojša Pavković.[6]

References
  1. 'BOLJI ŽIVOT'
  2. Lidija Vukićević Archived 2014-02-04 at the Wayback Machine;Otvoreni parlament
  3. Lidija Vukićević
  4. PUCA SRS: Očekivali da Šešelj metlom počisti stranku, umesto toga pljuštale ostavke!;telegraf.rs, 28 May 2012
  5. Ostavke u SRS;Press, 28 May 2012
  6. Radikalka u srcu i duši Archived 2012-11-05 at the Wayback Machine (in Serbian)
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