Toni Jeričević

Toni Jeričević
Born	Toni Jeričević (1983-07-17) July 17, 1983 Zadar, Croatia
Occupation	Businessman, Actor, TV host
Years active	2006–present

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 a TV host of the prime time reality sports TV show My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad^[1] which was originally produced by Mark Burnett for the U.S. broadcasting network NBC and later franchised to the top Croatian broadcasting television station in Croatia Nova TV.

Early life

Jericevic was born in the Dalmatian coastal city of Zadar, Croatia. He has one younger sister, Karmen. His father, Darko, is a mechanical engineer, and his mother, Anka, is a chemical technician.

Jericevic played basketball for KK Zadar and made the Croatian national basketball team generation '83 while playing with the current prominent names of European basketball such as Roko Ukić, Krešimir Lončar and Damir Rančić.

Given the opportunity, after attending MIOC High School, Jericevic went to United States as an exchange student. He graduated from Ord High School in Ord, Nebraska, earning an athletic and academic scholarship for the Midwestern private university Midland University (Midland Lutheran College at a time). Jericevic graduated^[2] summa cum laude with a Bachelor's degree in Marketing and Management among top 20 students overall, also earning himself a prestigious Wall Street Journal Student Achievement Award.

Career

In 2007 Jericevic left a serious business position to live and work in Budapest, Hungary to become a TV host of the national phone-in television game show Nova Lova for Nova TV.^[3] After that time he was invited to audition for a grand project My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad ^[4] and got the part as the leading TV host. During that time Jericevic appeared in a theatre play Tablica Dijeljenja^[5] directed by Ivan Leo Lemo in HNK Pula, and went back to hosting phone-in game shows until the beginning of 2010.

In 2012 Jericevic was cast as the main villain in the short movie Unexpected Delivery.^[6] He also appeared as criminal inspector in popular television series Ruža Vjetrova ^[7] on RTL.

Theatre

• The Milan Tarot Show (2013), cabaret
• All In The Timing (2011/02), comedy
• Master Class of Maria Callas (2001/02), drama
• Rhinoceros (2002/03), drama
• You Can't Take It with You (2003/04), comedy
• It's Just A Play (2004/05), comedy
• One Thousand and One Nights (2006/07), drama
• The Liar (2007), comedy
• The Fish Tales (2007), comedy
• The Division Table (2008/09), children play

Television

• IKEA commercial - IKEA ^[8] (2014), HRT, NovaTV, RTL
• Glazbena Prskalica (2013), Mreža TV
• Najbrzi Igrac (2012), OBN
• Ruža Vjetrova (2012), RTL
• My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad (2008), NovaTV
• Nova Lova^[9] (2007–2009), NovaTV
• Bitange i princeze^[10] (2005), episode #39, HRT2
• Buđenje - Ožujsko pivo commercial^[11] (2006)
• Pazi zid (2008)
• MOL reklam^[12] (2009)
• Fear Factor (2007)

Film

• Unexpected Delivery^[13] (2012), Your Film Festival

References