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Toni Jeričević Toni Jeričević Born July 17, 1983 (age 27)

            Zadar, Croatia 

Education Midland University (Midland Lutheran College)

Occupation businessman, actor, TV host

Years active 2007 - 2011-03-16

Toni Jeričević (born July 17, 1983) is a young Croatian businessman turned actor and TV host who appeared in American and Croatian theatre plays, commercials and national television productions. He is best known as as TV host of a prime time reality sports TV show My Dad is Better Than Your Dad which was orignially produced by Mark Burnett for Americna broadcasting network NBC and later franchised to the top Croatian broadcasting network in Croatia NovaTV. Contents [hide] • 1 Early life • 2 Career • 3 Personal life • 4 Awards • 5 Filmography • 6 References • 7 External links

Jericevic was born in the Dalmatian coastal city of Zadar, Croatia. He has one younger sister, Karmen. His father, Darko Jericevic, is a mechanical engineer, and his mother, Anka, is a chemical technician. Toni started showing interest in theatrical performances at an early age when his mother knitted costumes of the movies' superheroes such as Spiderman, Superman, Robocop, Batman and even Super Mouse. Due to the fact that Zadar had no local development for young actors Jericevic decided to occupy himself with the next best thing in the city of Zadar, basketball, since the age of 9. At the age of 15 Jericevic qualified for the three point shootout at National Basketball All Star game in Karlovac and measured his skills against best shooter in the league including Gordan Giricek who developed successful NBA carer. At the age of 16 he already played for the National Basketball Team generation 83' with some of the best current European basketball players from Croatia such as Roko Ukic, Kresimir Loncar, Damir Rancic and others. Little is known that Jericevic was regarded as one of the best shooting guards of his generation makin 97 free throws and 31 three pointers in a row separately during practice. Given the opportunity, at the age of 17 Jericevic went on to search for athletic and academic opportunities in United States as an exchange student. Jericevic graduated from Ord High School earning an athletic and academic scholarship combined for the prestigiious Midwestern private university Midland University (Midland Lutheran College at a time). While there he participated in numerous theatre plays, ending his basketball career after the freshman year, and pursing the fileds of business and theatre full time. Jericevic graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor's degree in Marketing and Management among top 20 students overall, also earning himself a prestigious award of Wall Street Journal Student Achievemnet Award as the business student of his generation based on faculty merit, work involved, acitivities, participation and knowledge.

Toni Jericevic moved back to Croatia in the summer of 2005. While looking for a profesionall employment in the area of business he joined the talent casting agencies in Zagreb. While there he started out as an extra on television shows such as Zuhra Light Show at NovaTv, had a small appearance in a successful Croatian sit-com Bitange i Princeze, and a featuring role in an award wining Ozujsko Commercial „Buđenje.“ At that time Jericevic got a serious business opportunity in his hometown Zadar, but he used his spare time to participate in theatre playing the supporting role of Shahzeman in the theatre play „1001 and one night“ produced by the local theatre HNK that received rave reviews. Also, at that time he participated in a popular television show Fear Factor produced by RTL Croatia in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2007 Jericevic left a serious business position to live and work in Budapest, Hungary and become a TV host of the National TV phone-in game show for NovaTV. After that time he was invited to the audition of a huge project My Dad is Better Than Your Dad and got the part as the leading TV host. Due to the low ratings Jericevic was fired from the position in the middle of the season and substitued by a well known televion face Boris Mirkovic in the middle of the season which additionally hurt the ratings. During that time Jericevic appeared in a theatre play Tablica Dijeljenja directer by Ivan Leo Lemo in HNK Pula. Currently, Jericevic is pursuing a business career in marketing, PR & branding for one of the overal most succesful companies in Croatia.