Mira Furlan

Mira Furlan (7 September 1955 – 20 January 2021) was a Croatian actress and singer. Internationally, she was best known for her roles as the Minbari Ambassador Delenn in the science fiction television series Babylon 5 (1993–1998), and as Danielle Rousseau in Lost (2004–2010), and also appeared in multiple award-winning films such as When Father Was Away on Business (1985) and The Abandoned (2010).
Furlan was born on 7 September 1955 to an intellectual and academic family that included a large number of university professors in Zagreb, PR Croatia, which was part of Yugoslavia at the time. She was born to a Jewish Croatian mother, Branka Weil and a father of mixed Slovene-Croat descent, Ivan Furlan.
As a child, Furlan was obsessed with American rock and roll music. She became interested in acting as a teenager.