Rade Serbedzija

Father of Lucija Serbedzija.

Ranked #4 in Croatian-based monthly film magazine "Hollywood" in Best Croatian Male Movie Stars of All Time list. (November 2005)

He was a professor of Acting at Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia.

Founded the Ulysses Theatre in 2000 with Borislav Vujcic in Brijuni, where he also directs and acts in most plays.

His neighbor in America is Benicio Del Toro.

Father of Danilo Serbedzija.

Plays guitar and sings so he had a few musical tours.

One of the greatest Croatian stage and screen actors.

On the London stage, he won critical praise for his work in Colin Redgraves Moving Theatre Company staging of "Brecht in Hollywood" .

One of the favorite actors of Macedonian director Milcho Manchevski. He and Manchevski worked together on Oscar nominated movie Before the Rain .

Won Golden Arena (Pula Film Festival) for his role in Bravo maestro and in Vecernja zvona .

For the role of Athos in Fugitive Pieces he won award for best actor at Rome Film Fest and was nominated for Satellite Award and Genie Award for the same role.

Is fluent in Italian.

Won the Golden Arena at the 57th Pula Film Festival for best actor in a leading role for his role in Sedamdeset i dva dana , the debut movie by his son Danilo Serbedzija.

He played a homeless man in Batman Begins , which used Mentmore Towers as the filming location for Wayne Manor. This location was used in another film starring Rade Serbedzija - Stanley Kubrick s Eyes Wide Shut where the location was used as the exterior for the infamous orgy scene.

During the Balkans war he fled to Slovenia where he also got a Slovene passport. In 2014 he got a Macedonian passport too.

Often plays Russians.

Was in the famous M&Ms Super Bowl commercial as a Head Russian Mafia going to cut up and serve the Yellow M&M (voiced by J.K. Simmons ) on Ice Cream to his men and family.

In Turkish his surname means someone who makes and/or sells a sweet drink called Sherbet.