Olja Bećković

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Olja Bećković, born May 1, 1964 in Belgrade, is a Serbian journalist, actress and TV host. She studied drama and acted until she was 25, then switched to journalism. She has worked at RTV Studio B, B92 and Nova S. Bećković hosted the political talk show Utisak nedelje (Impression of the Week) from 1991 to 2014 and again since 2019. In March 2014 she received the Jug Grizelj Award. The show was controversially taken off air in September 2014. In 2015 she started a monthly interview feature for the NIN weekly magazine called Intervju meseca, with her first interview of Slavoljub Đukić. After leaving B92, she received France’s Legion of Honour on April 30, 2015, for her professional work and courage. She is the daughter of poet Matija Bećković and Vera Pavladoljska. In her teens she briefly married Nenad Ilić, and in the early 1990s she married Vlada Višnjić; they had a son, Luka, born in 1994. Vlada Višnjić died in 1999.