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MilanBorich

  • Actor
  • Musician
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Milan Borich was only 12 when he was chosen from roughly 400 people to star in TV series The Champion. He played a war-obsessed boy whose family billets an American soldier during World War ll. Borich followed it by playing the best friend to the hero in two movies: vampire tale Moonrise and teen romance Bonjour Timothy. He was nominated for an NZ Film and Television Award for the later role. Since then Borich has concentrated on music, singing on four albums with rockers Pluto. He has also directed the occasional Pluto music video, acted and sang in the Kiwi version of Underbelly, and in 2014 hosted the Papakura episode of Neighbourhood.

Screenography

Cool Your Heels
2020 Performer Music video
Oh My Lonely
2019 Director, Producer Music video
2015 Performer Music video
2012 - 2017 Presenter Series
Underbelly NZ - Land of the Long Green Cloud
2011 Actor Series

Awards

1995 New Zealand Film and Television Awards
Nominated for Best Male Performance in a Supporting Role - Film: for Bonjour Timothy

“He had an intuitive understanding — he was simply the best and right person for the role.”

Producer Ginette McDonald on Milan Borich being chosen to star in TV series The Champion, in the press kit for the show

Related images

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Scott Harman (left, as Leo Yukich) and Milan Borich (as Rex Pascoe) in 1989 TV series The Champion.
Photo courtesy of TVNZ
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Four of the cast of 1989 TV series The Champion: from left to right, Scott Harman (as Leo), Michael James (as Prvate Jackson Coop), Milan Borich (as Rex), and Louise Perry (as Dawn).
Photo courtesy of TVNZ
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The Pascoe family in 1989 series The Champion: from left to right, Gloria (played by Meredith Braun), Alf (Alistair Douglas), Rex (Milan Borich), and Bernice (Sarah Peirse).
Photo courtesy of TVNZ
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Promotional material for 1992 movie Grampire /Moonrise.
Kindly supplied by Michael Heath