Danica Ćurčić Biography: Movies, Husband, Awards, Age, Ethnicity, Parents, Net Worth, Height

Danica Ćurčić is a Serbian-Danish actress who became widely known through a run of high-profile Scandinavian dramas and thrillers, including her work in Bille August’s Silent Heart and the Netflix series The Chestnut Man.

As her screen visibility grew, she balanced arthouse films with mainstream crime storytelling, turning up in projects such as The Mist, Equinox, and later the Netflix mini-series Secrets We Keep, where she played a central figure in the neighborhood’s unraveling.

Profile

• Full name: Danica Ćurčić
• Date of birth: 27 August 1985
• Age: 40 years old
• Gender: Female
• Place of birth: Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
• Nationality: Danish
• Profession: Actress
• Height: 179 cm
• Hair color: Brown
• Parents: Mihajlo Ćurčić (father); Vesna Bjelica Ćurčić (mother)
• Siblings: Ognjen Ćurčić (brother)
• Spouse: Darren Pettie
• Children: Dunja Darren
• Relationship status: Married
• Religion: Christian
• Ethnicity: Serbian-Danish
• Net worth: $3 million

Early Life and Education

Danica Ćurčić is now 40 years old. She was born on 27 August 1985 in Belgrade, and she moved to Copenhagen when she was one year old, during a period when her father worked at the Yugoslav embassy. Her parents are Mihajlo Ćurčić and Vesna Bjelica Ćurčić. She also has one known brother Ognjen Ćurčić.

For her schooling in Denmark, she attended Sankt Annæ Gymnasium. She later completed a bachelor’s degree in film and media studies at the University of Copenhagen, then spent a year in California taking acting classes at the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre.

Her conservatory training followed at the Danish National School of Performing Arts, where she graduated in 2012.

Personal Life

Danica Ćurčić is married to American actor Darren Pettie, whom she met while filming the series The Mist in 2016. The couple has at least one child together, a daughter named Dunja, who was born in 2023. In August 2025, it was reported that Ćurčić was pregnant and expecting their second daughter.

Career

Danica Ćurčić’s path into professional acting combined academic film study with formal stage training. After graduating from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2012, she moved quickly into professional work, building a résumé that included theatre alongside screen roles, with professional listings placing her in productions connected to the Royal Danish Theatre.

Her breakthrough period arrived in the mid-2010s. In Silent Heart (Stille hjerte), she played Sanne in a story about a family confronting an end-of-life decision, a performance that was strongly recognized during Denmark’s awards season.

Around the same time, she appeared in other major Danish films including The Absent One (Fasandræberne), which broadened her audience through the Department Q crime franchise.

On television, she became a familiar face in Nordic noir and high-end drama. Credits in series such as The Mist, Equinox, and The Chestnut Man placed her in the kind of serialized storytelling that travels well internationally, helped along by global streaming distribution.

In 2025, she appeared in the Netflix mini-series Secrets We Keep (Reservatet) as Katarina, a role positioned near the center of the show’s social conflict and moral pressure points.

In recent years, her film work has continued with projects credited in 2023 and 2024, showing a steady pace rather than long gaps between appearances. Those releases, paired with recurring TV visibility, have kept her in the active top tier of Scandinavian screen acting.

Awards and Nominations

• Shooting Stars award (European Film Promotion), Berlinale (2014)
• Bodil Award, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Silent Heart (2015)
• Robert Award, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Silent Heart (2015)
• Nordisk Film Prize, CPH PIX (2015)
• Bodil Award nomination, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, The Absent One (2015)

Net Worth

Danica Ćurčić’s net worth is estimated at $3 million. This estimate is based on long-term earnings from lead and supporting roles in major Danish feature films, recurring work in high-profile television series.

Social Media

• Instagram: @danicacurcic

Filmography

• Mike Hunt (2011)
• Fængsel (2012)
• Over kanten / Over the Edge (2012)
• Oasen (2013)
• The Bridge (2013)
• On the Edge (2014)
• All Inclusive (2014)
• The Absent One / Fasandræberne (2014)
• Silent Heart / Stille hjerte (2014)
• Wallander (2015)
• Long Story Short (2015)
• The Gold Coast (2015)
• Across the Water / Fuglene over sundet (2016)
• Nobel (2016)
• Darling (2017)
• The Mist (2017)
• Warrior / Kriger (2018)
• Mom Squad (2019)
• Out Stealing Horses (2019)
• Equinox (2020)
• Murina (2021)
• The Bombardment / Skyggen i mit øje (2021)
• The Chestnut Man (2021)