Sanja Bestic (Serbian: Сања Ð'eштић, Sanja BeÅ¡tić; born June
13, 1982) is a Serbian-American director, writer and producer.Sanja
was born in Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia to mother Biljana Gajić Beštić,
an artist, and father Branislav Beštić, a soccer player from
Belgrade, Yugoslavia (present day Serbia). Her younger brother,
Vladimir Beštić, is a former Serbian football player who has since
become the head coach at a prestigious football academy in New York
City, USA.Sanja attended Zemun High School (Zemunska Gimnazija) while
simultaneously studying at the renowned theater studio and acting
school under the direction of the highly respected theater professor,
Mika Aleksić. She pursued theater directing at the Faculty of
Dramatic Arts at University of Arts in Belgrade under the guidance of
Ivana Vujić. While attending a fellowship at the Moving Academy for
Performing Arts in Amsterdam, she refined her artistic coaching
skills. Sanja worked with the Theater of Shadows and, after moving to
New York City in 2004, further expanded her studies at The Michael
Chekhov Acting Studio and the Lee Strasburg Institute for Theater and
Film.In 2016, Bestic married her long-time partner Vladimir Berisavac,
a lawyer working as a consultant for The World Bank. They have two
daughters â€" Iva, who was born in 2017, and Asja, born in 2018.
13, 1982) is a Serbian-American director, writer and producer.Sanja
was born in Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia to mother Biljana Gajić Beštić,
an artist, and father Branislav Beštić, a soccer player from
Belgrade, Yugoslavia (present day Serbia). Her younger brother,
Vladimir Beštić, is a former Serbian football player who has since
become the head coach at a prestigious football academy in New York
City, USA.Sanja attended Zemun High School (Zemunska Gimnazija) while
simultaneously studying at the renowned theater studio and acting
school under the direction of the highly respected theater professor,
Mika Aleksić. She pursued theater directing at the Faculty of
Dramatic Arts at University of Arts in Belgrade under the guidance of
Ivana Vujić. While attending a fellowship at the Moving Academy for
Performing Arts in Amsterdam, she refined her artistic coaching
skills. Sanja worked with the Theater of Shadows and, after moving to
New York City in 2004, further expanded her studies at The Michael
Chekhov Acting Studio and the Lee Strasburg Institute for Theater and
Film.In 2016, Bestic married her long-time partner Vladimir Berisavac,
a lawyer working as a consultant for The World Bank. They have two
daughters â€" Iva, who was born in 2017, and Asja, born in 2018.
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