Biography
Nationality
Serbian
Playing range
33 - 47
Željko Maksimović
Credits
Movies
2022
"Rocketry: The Nambi Effect", Role: Ken, Director: R. Madhavan, Production: Tricolour Films
TV Shows
2022
"The Clan" season 3, Role: Šloser, Director: Slobodan Skerlić, Production: Firefly Production
2021
"The Family", Role: Inspector Potkrajac, Director: Bojan Vuletić, Production: Firefly Production, This and That Production
2021
"The Clan" season 2, Role: Šloser, Director: Slobodan Skerlić, Production: Firefly Production
2020
"The Case of the Bošković Family", Role: Actor, Director: Raško Miljković, Production: Košutnjak Film
2020
"The Clan" season 1, Role: Šloser, Director: Slobodan Skerlić, Production: Firefly Production
2018
"Morning Changes Everything", Role: Dejan, Director: Goran Stanković, Production: RTS, This and That Production
Theatre
"Dr. Ausländer", Role: several roles, Director: Bojan Đorđev, Production: Bitef Festival and Yugoslav Drama Theater
"Point Before Satiation", Role: Dušan, Director: Stevan Bodroža, Production: Bitef Theater and Puls Theater
"White Kidneys", Role: Father, Husband, Daša, Director: Isidora Goncić, Production: Atelje 212
"The Regime of Love", Role: Boba, Director: Bojan Đorđev, Production: Atelje 212
"And Others", Role: several roles, Director: Stevan Bodroža, Production: Vuk Theater
"Photograph 51", Role: Francis Crick, Director: Tara Manić, Production: Vuk Theater
"A Streetcar Named Solitude", Role: Fool-for-Christ, Director: Stevan Bodroža, Production: Vuk Theater
"Rosmersholm", Role: Outsider, Director: Ana Konstantinović, Production: Belgrade Drama Theater
"Midsummer’s Night Dream", Role: Groom, Director: SKUTR, Production: Summer Shakespeare Festival Prague
"WTF Are We Doing Here", Role: Željko, Director: Maja Maletković, Production: Yugoslav Drama Theater
"The Tempest", Role: Islander, Director: SKUTR, Production: Jatka 78 Prague
"The Deceased", Role: Prokić, Director: Igor Vuk Torbica, Production: Yugoslav Drama Theater
"Glass Menagerie", Role: Tom, Director: Ana Konstantinović, Production: Belgrade Youth Center
Skills
Singing, swimming, playing tennis
Spoken languages
Serbian, English (fluent), French, Czech, Spanish, Russian, English
Additional info
Željko Maksimović is an actor, translator, and performer. Before enrolling to the Faculty of Dramatic Arts’ Acting department, he studied English language and literature and Japanese language at the University of Belgrade.
Željko has worked and lived between Prague and Belgrade for several years, working on numerous projects, primarily with the renowned Czech directorial duo SKUTR.
He has also translated numerous works by authors such as Tanja Šljivar, Dino Pešut, Filip Grujić, and Mate Ugrin into English, most of them published in the USA.
Besides working in the theater, since 2019 Željko has been collaborating with visual artist Ivana Ivković in her grandiose performance pieces, and in 2022, he worked with artist Selma Selman on the conceptualization of her solo performance for the renowned documenta exhibition in Kassel.
With theater director Ana Konstantinović, he leads the Eho animato independent art collective, implementing EU sponsored project, and collaborating with numerous art organization, most notably New York City’s La MaMa theater.