Snežana Savić

Snežana Savić is a Serbian actress and singer, born on 6 March 1953 in Velika Plana. After secondary school she studied acting at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, graduating in the class of professor Ognjenka Milićević as the best student of her year; Ljiljana Stjepanović, Lazar Ristovski, Bogdan Diklić and Radoš Bajić studied with her.

Her first television role came in the 1975 TV film Ignjatović protiv Gebelsa, and a year later she played the title role in the TV drama Koštana, one of the most noted roles of her career. Series such as Čast mi je pozvati vas, Sedam sekretara SKOJ-a and I to se zove sreća followed, as did films including Maska, Pad Italije and Šta je s tobom, Nina, in which she played the lead, and the comedies Žikina dinastija and Žikina ženidba. Her greatest fame came from the series of the writer Siniša Pavić: in Bolji život she played the singer Nina Andrejević, in Srećni ljudi the wealthy Malina Vojvodić, and she went on to Porodično blago and Stižu dolari. Readers of TV Novosti twice voted her half of the screen couple of the year at the Niš film festival, with Desimir Stanojević for Srećni ljudi in 1996 and with Dragan Nikolić for Porodično blago in 2001.

In the early 1980s she also began a music career and became one of the most popular folk singers of the decade. Her first album, O, kakva noć, came out on Jugoton in 1983, followed by Ne smem da te diram (1984) and Ti kraj mene nisi (1985). From 1987 she recorded for PGP RTB and in the early 2000s moved to Grand produkcija, and she has made twelve studio albums in all. She sang "Tri poljupca za sreću" at MESAM in 1985 and "Nova ljubav" there in 1988, and "Topolska 18" was the song from Srećni ljudi.

Later festivals brought wins: in 2008 "Sakam da sme zaedno" took both the jury's and the audience's first prize at Ohrid Fest, and in 2009 "Vino za rastanak" won Moravski biseri. In December 2018 the Association of Estrada-Music Artists of Serbia gave her its lifetime achievement award. Her best-known songs include "Tri poljupca za sreću", "Topolska 18", "Nova ljubav", "Topim se", "Šarene oči", "Zabranjeno", "Svirajte mi Vranje" and "Ne smem da te diram". From her marriage to the director Dragoslav Lazić she has a daughter, Anita.