Dragomir Mrsic (born 2 October 1969), nicknamed Gago is a Serbian-Swedish actor, sports consultant and sports leader.
Life and career Mrsic was born in the Rasavci village near Prijedor, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, to father Momir and mother Radojka. His father got a job in Sweden in the late 1960s. Dragomir moved with his mother and two older siblings to Sweden aged a month and a half, and was brought up in Fittja, a suburb of southern Stockholm. His father worked as a chef at Grand Hôtel in the city, his mother as a cleaner at the local school. His father was a functioning alcoholic. At 14 years of age he witnessed his brother's friend's suicide by jumping. His two siblings, sister Ranka and brother Radomir "Rajko", died due to drug usage.
He has been trained in Taekwondo since his youth, and has a black belt. His childhood idol was Bruce Lee. At 18 years of age, in 1987, he became the Nordic Champion in taekwondo. In 1990, he and his friend Liam Norberg were involved in the robbery of bank Götabanken; he stood guard some hundred meters away. He was arrested and sentenced to three years and six months in prison for the robbery, and served his sentence at Hall Prison. He studied Buddhism in prison. After serving his sentence, he entered into a sports college. He then started a gym, and became a sports consultant. He was a top program trainer in the Swedish Olympics Committee from 2000 to 2004.
After a few minor acting roles, such as in the Wallander film Kuriren (2009), he got his big break out in 2010 as Mrado, in the critically acclaimed film Easy Money (2010).
In 2014, he co-starred in the Tom Cruise film, Edge of Tomorrow.
In January 2015, he gave his voice and likeness to Dragan in the video game Payday 2. Mrsic is the only cast member in the game who has previously been involved in illegal activities.
In his gym, "Extreme Training", he has trained sportspeople such as Martina Navratilova, Helen Alfredsson and Douglas Murray and actors such as Rooney Mara.
He also starred in Stjärnorna på slottet in seasons 2019/2020.
Mrsic lives with the personal trainer Isabel Alonso. They met in 1992 and have a daughter and a son.Dragomir: ”Försökte skydda mamma”, Expressen, 9 mars 2014
Filmography Movies Year Film Role Notes 2006 Exit Extra 2007 Gangster Dragan Leo Gago 2009 Wallander – Kuriren Jovan 2010 Easy Money Mrado Slovovic 2012 Easy Money II: Hard to Kill 2014 Edge of Tomorrow Kuntz 2021 Omerta 6/12 Zlatko Post-production
TV-series Year Film Role Notes 2014 Torpederna 2017 Innan vi dör Torpederna Syrror 2017-2019 Alex Alex Leko 2018 Bonusfamiljen Branco West of Liberty Pavel Bullets Juri Borodin
Video games Year Title Role Notes 2014 Payday 2 Dragan Heister 2018 A Way Out Prison Brute Hitman The one that was big and bald.
Writing Dragomir Mrsic & Majsan Boström; Extreme Training: from Fittja to Hollywood, Fitnessförlaget, 2014.
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, pronunciation demonstrated around 0:40 (non-English interview), accessed January 22, 2015.