Zelda Tinska

Milica Zelda Tinska (Serbian Cyrillic: Милица Зелда Тинска; born 1979) is a Serbian actress.

Career Zelda trained as a ballerina in the renowned École supérieure de danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower, France, and later at the London Studio Centre, a college for performing arts in London, UK.

She was a professional jazz, ballet and neoclassical dancer prior to becoming an actress, after being cast as Sonja in The Beach opposite Leonardo DiCaprio. As an actress, she appeared in the Waking The Dead, The Bill, The Beach, The Mother, Mathilde and many other productions, and has performed in English, French, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Russian and Albanian.

Tinska was part of the visual effects team of the film Ex Machina who received an Oscar for Best Achievement in Visual Effects. When not acting, Zelda works as a VFX Producer. She is a full voting member of BAFTA.

Early life Tinska is the daughter of Jelena Tinska, a renowned Serbian actress, talk show host, and writer, and Dragoslav Lutovac, a film and television director. Her maternal grandfather was a distinguished writer and acclaimed Shakespearean translator. In addition to translating nearly the entire works of William Shakespeare he also translated books by authors such as Salman Rushdi, John Updike and Hubert Selby among many others. Petrovic was also a prolific author, with works like ("Sladak zivot na srpski nacin") . Zelda's maternal great-grandfather, Woislav M. Petrovitch was the late Attaché to the Serbian Royal Legation to the Court of St. James. Zelda's sister, Ljubica Jentl Tinska, is a successful translator and artist.

Tinska lives and works in London, England.

Filmography Title Year Role Notes The Bill 1999 Mia (TV series) Episode "Under Duress" The Beach 2000 Sonja Holby City 2000 Talia Dachovia (TV series) Episode "Dispossessed" Balti Kings Video 2001 Mariam (Short film) Auf Wiedersehen, Pet 2002 Irina (TV series) 3 episodes Hard Labour 2003 Elena (Short film) The Break In 2003 Joe (Short film) The Mother 2003 Barmaid Uncredited Midnight Feast 2003 Mariam (Short film) First Time Magic 2004 Joe (Short film) Mathilde 2004 Dr Simić Beneath the Skin 2005 Lena (TV film) The Bill 2005 Rumali (TV series) Episode "342" EastEnders 2007 Hostess (TV series) 1 episode Taximan 2008 Voice (Short film) Waking the Dead 2009 Olena Kuzmich (TV series) 2 episodes Capture Anthologies: Love, Lust and Tragedy 2010 Yelena Coronation Street 2010 Anka / Cleaner (TV series) 3 episodes Sirens 2011 Ana (TV series) 2 episodes