Milena Radulović

From Balkan Realism to Underground Terror

Milena Radulović did not wait for the movies to knock on her door. In 2017, she finished her studies at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, and that same year she already had one foot on professional sets in her country. Her classical training allowed her to jump from local television to big-budget productions without going through the usual limbo of forgotten supporting roles.

In 2019, she starred in The Balkan Line, a war action film that performed very well at the box office in Eastern Europe. But her real breakthrough into the international market came in 2020 with Superdeep. In this biological horror project shot in Russia, she carried the full weight of the plot as an epidemiologist at a secret facility.

Filming in Russia was a physical hell.

The actress spent weeks filming in extreme cold and claustrophobic settings. That experience strengthened her ability in genre films, a field where physical expressiveness matters as much as the script. So her name began to come up in European casting offices as a solid choice for roles that demand a mix of vulnerability and technical toughness.

The Year That Redefined Her Public Image

In January 2021, Radulović's career took a turn that had nothing to do with fiction. The actress publicly accused her former acting teacher of sexual abuse she had suffered years earlier. This step forward sparked a movement similar to MeToo in Serbia and other neighboring countries, because it broke decades of silence within academic drama institutions.

And the silence was broken forever.

For months, media attention moved away from her films and focused on the courtroom. However, she chose not to abandon her career and used that exposure to call for stricter safety protocols on film sets. In 2022, she resumed her professional work with Anatomija jedne presude, showing that her commitment to the industry remained intact despite the personal toll of the legal process.

In 2023, the Serbian press recorded a significant increase in complaints in the cultural sector following her testimony. Radulović became a leading voice for women's rights in Eastern Europe, but she always kept acting as her absolute priority. For her, activism was not a goal but a consequence of her professional reality.

The Spanish Connection and the Global Market

In 2024, she moved to Spain to lead the cast of Cicatriz, an ambitious international co-production based on the literary universe of Juan Gómez-Jurado. In the series, she plays Irina, a woman with a violent past who seeks revenge in a criminal environment. The role required her to learn Spanish in record time and adapt to a production pace very different from that of Balkan series.

Risk was part of the contract.

Filming for this series took place between Bilbao and Belgrade over several months of 2024. Radulović worked side by side with Spanish and Serbian actors on a project designed specifically for global streaming platforms. Her ability to work in several languages (she speaks Russian, English and Serbian, in addition to her training in Spanish) has allowed her to avoid being typecast as an Eastern European immigrant.

In 2025, her schedule includes a return to the stage in Belgrade with a contemporary play. The production of Cicatriz had a budget of over one million euros per episode and was distributed in more than thirty countries. The actress closed out 2024 with three projects awaiting release in different European markets.