Ena Begović

Ena Begović
Born Jelena Begović
(1960-07-08)8 July 1960
Trpanj, FPR Yugoslavia
Died 15 August 2000(2000-08-15) (aged 40)
Brač, Croatia
Occupation Actress
Years active 1979–2000
Children Lana (b. 2000)

Jelena "Ena" Begović (8 July 1960 – 15 August 2000) was a Croatian actress.

She was born in Trpanj (Dubrovnik-Neretva County) in family of mother Tereza Begović (b. 1935) on July 8, 1960. Three years after Ena, in 1963, Mia, who is also an actress, was born. Ena was married to Josip Radeljak (b. 1938) and with Josip she had a daughter Lana (b. 2000). Ena was died in a traffic accident in Brač near Split on August 15, 2000.

Begović began acting early, making her first screen appearance at the age of 16 through a small part in Occupation in 26 Pictures, a controversial 1976 film directed by Lordan Zafranović. The director noticed her talent and cast her in the main female role in his next film, The Fall of Italy where she played Veronika, the daughter of a wealthy local from the Dalmatia coast who sided with occupying Italian Fascists. This debut established Ena Begović as one of the sex symbols of 1980s Yugoslav cinema, a status that she later successfully maintained despite appearing in relatively few films as her acting career shifted towards theater.

In the 1990s she was kept in the public eye more due to her personal life than her acting. In early 1990s, while driving in Zagreb, she was involved in a traffic accident resulting in the death of a man.

On August 15, 2000, on the island of Brač, a few months after marrying the Croatian businessman Josip Radeljak and a month and a half after giving birth to their daughter, Lana, she was involved (as a passenger) in another traffic accident, a rollover, which claimed her life.

Her sister is the actress Mia Begović.

Selected filmography



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