Stefan Kapičić

Stefan Kapičić
Kapičić at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con International
Born	(1978-12-01) 1 December 1978 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Alma mater	University of Belgrade
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2002–present
Height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Spouse	Ivana Horvat ​ (m. 2017)​

Stefan Kapičić (Serbian Cyrillic: Стефан Капичић; born 1 December 1978) is a Serbian actor best known for his role of Colossus in Deadpool (2016) and Deadpool 2 (2018).

Early life

Kapičić was born 1 December 1978 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, the son of Slobodanka "Beba" Žugić, a Montenegrin actress, and Dragan Kapičić, a retired Serbian basketball player. His father played for Saturn Köln during that time. At three years of age the family returned to Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia. His grandfather bought him his first comic book when he was six years old, which sparked what he called an "ongoing love" in a 2015 interview about his role in Deadpool. He studied acting at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. He speaks Croatian, Serbian, English, German and Russian.

Career

Kapičić played the role of his own father in the 2015 film Bićemo prvaci sveta (We Will Be the World Champions) about the Yugoslavian national basketball team which won the 1970 FIBA World Championship.

By 2015, Kapičić had accumulated more than 80 roles in television, film, and theater. He made it to the second round of a secret casting process for the X-Man Colossus in the superhero film Deadpool, learning what the production was only after he passed that round. Working with first-time director Tim Miller in Los Angeles, Kapičić did 120 takes during his third call of auditions, stretching the session an additional eight hours beyond its intended four-hour duration, before flying back to Dubrovnik, Croatia to perform Romeo and Juliet. Kapičić, a self-described "comic book geek" who considered Deadpool one of his favorite characters, was especially delighted when he learned he won the role, taking over from Daniel Cudmore, who had played the role in the X-Men films. Kapičić was selected because Miller wanted his version of Colossus, who is Russian in the comics, to have a Russian accent. The 6-foot-4 Kapičić portrayed the 7-and-a-half-foot tall character through a combination of voice work and motion capture, completing filming in mid-December 2015, eight weeks before the film's February 12, 2016 release date.

Personal life

In December 2015, Kapičić became engaged to Croatian actress Ivana Horvat. They were married in 2017.

Filmography

Stefan Kapičić at the Mayfair Hotel in Manhattan's Theater District in 2016

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006-2007	Obični ljudi	Igor Nikolić	Main cast (111 episodes)
2008	Vratiće se rode	Dizajner Mitrović Dečanski	Guest star
2008	The Unit	Dragan	Episode: "Sex Trade"
2008	Numb3rs	Lee Hagopian	Episode: "Scan Man"
2010	24	Davros' Operative	Episode: "Day 8: 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m."
2011	The Event	Dimitri Jelavitch	Episode: "Strain"
2011-2013	Larin izbor	Nikša Ivanov	Main cast (251 episodes)
2013	Stella	Zac	Guest star
2013–2014	Zora dubrovačka	Rocco Sorgo	Recurring cast (48 episodes)
2015	Andrija i Anđelka	Tonči	Guest star
2016	Prvaci sveta	Dragan Kapičić	Guest star
2018	Counterpart	Lieber	Guest star
2018	Better Call Saul	Casper	2 episodes

Film

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2002	Kordon
2003	Citravita	Policeman in a Batman shirt	Short
2003	Skoro sasvim obična priča	Bane Leskovac
2004	Slobodan pad	Nikola	Short
2004	Ulični hodač
2004	O štetnosti duvana	Ahmed Crni Arapin
2006	Ne skreći sa staze	Gej Deda Mraz
2008	Čarlston za Ognjenku	Arsa 'Kralj čarlstona'
2008	The Brothers Bloom	German Bar Owner
2012	Big Miracle	Yuri
2012	Larin izbor: Izgubljeni princ	Nikša Ivanov
2013	Hitac	Crni
2015	Bićemo prvaci sveta	Dragan Kapičić
2016	Deadpool	Piotr Rasputin / Colossus
2018	Deadpool 2

External links

• Stefan Kapičić at IMDb