• Name: Goran Visnjic
  
• Height: 6'4"
  
• Sex: M
  
• Nationality: Croatian
  
• Birth Date: September 9, 1972
  
• Birth Place: Sibenik, Croatia
  
• Profession: actor
  
• Education: Academy of Dramatic Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
  
• Husband/Wife: Ivana Vrdoljak (married on May 8, 1999; one son)
  
• Father: Zeljko (former bus driver)
  
• Mother: Milka (former saleswoman)
  
• Brother: Josko (born in 1970)
  

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• On why he extended his military service: "When somebody is attacking your hometown, and you're just sitting in the basement, you feel really useless. I felt I had to do it to defend my country. That's normal."
• "I'm working with a dialect coach, but it's not helping. I want everyone to understand what I am talking about, like 'peritoneal lavage', you know, these medical expressions... I don't want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller."
• On why he doesn't give many interviews: "Every time I perform, I work really hard to give part of myself to the audience. Then I do an interview and I read some story that just isn't true, or someone draws a crazy conclusion about my life, and it's such a betrayal. It hasn't happened here, but in Croatia, I've had to stop reading about myself. I don't think actors mean to be secretive - they just don't want strangers looking through their kitchen window."
• "I don't understand the word 'hunk.'"
• "The first time I came here it was 10 days, then 15 days, then three months. Now this time I have to stay to April. I'm slowly getting stuck here and I miss Europe."
• "I would really like to do theatre in my native language because that would be like so relaxed after ER ... English ... those medical words!"
• "ER is a pretty big deal in Croatia. When my agent called and told me about this show, I said, 'Are we talking about the same ER?' And I thought about it for half a second and then said, 'Yes, of course!' I was watching them in Croatia when I was still at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, and now I'm working with them."
• "Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence."
• "My only goal here in the States is to really try to work on the accent as much as I can, to really polish it to be really good. With an accent like this you're still forced to play certain parts and some parts you can't get, so that's my first concern."

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