Zelda Tinska

Milica Zelda Tinska (Serbian Cyrillic: Милица Зелда Тинска; born 1979) is a Serbian actress who lives and works in London, UK.

Zelda trained as a ballerina in the renowned École supérieure de danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower, France,^{[citation needed]} and later at the London Studio Centre, a college for performing arts in London, UK.^[1]

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.^[2]

Tinska was part of the visual effects team of the film Ex Machina who received an Oscar for Best Achievement in Visual Effects.^[3] When not acting, Zelda works as a VFX Producer. She is a full voting member of BAFTA.

Tinska is the daughter of Jelena Tinska,^[1] a renowned Serbian actress, talk show host, and writer, and Dragoslav Lutovac, a film and television director. Her maternal grandfather Aleksandar Petrovic 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.

• Official website
• Zelda Tinska at IMDb