Mira Furlan

Mira Furlan will always be Delenn from Babylon 5 and the haunted Danielle Rousseau from Lost to me, and those roles capture what made her special. Born in Zagreb, she carried the gravity of a turbulent homeland into everything she played, lending her characters a mystic intelligence that felt earned rather than acted. There was a soulful precision to her presence, delicate yet unshakeable. Her death in 2021 was a real loss for genre television, where she elevated every scene she touched. I keep returning to her voice and her steady, knowing gaze.

Name (English)

Mira Furlan

Name (Japanese)

ミラ・ファーラン

Reading

みら・ふぁーらん

Born

September 7, 1955 – January 20, 2021

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Goat

Origin

Zagreb, Croatia

Occupation

actor / stage actor / film actor / television actor / singer

• Official sitehttps://mirafurlan.net/
• Xhttps://x.com/FurlanMira
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira%20Furlan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q229740

Tags

• actor
• stage actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-20

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.