Jernej Šugman

Jernej Šugman (23 December 1968 – 10 December 2017 ) was a prominent Slovenian theater, television and film actor.

Biography Šugman was born in Ljubljana, the son of actors Zlatko and Maja Šugman. Between 1988 and 1992, he studied acting at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana.

Šugman played in two important dramas of Ivan Cankar, the role of Kantor in The King of Betajnova (Kralj na Betajnovi) and the role of the Priest in The Serfs (Hlapci). Other prominent roles include Molière's Orgon in Tartuffe and Alceste in The Misanthrope, Sophocles' Oedipus, Bertolt Brecht's Baal, and Agamemnon in the stage interpretation of Iliad. His last stage role was in the adaptation of Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi.

Some of Šugman's most prominent film appearances include roles in Andrej Košak's Headnoise (Zvenenje v glavi, 2002) and Janez Lapajne's Short Circuits (Kratki stiki, 2006), both of which were submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Metod Pevec's Lahko noč, gospodična (2011). in Zelenica, Slovenia during a ski trip. He was buried on 15 December at Žale Cemetery in Ljubljana, with military honors.