Full Name Toni Jericevic Years active 2006–present | Name Toni Jericevic | |
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Born July 17, 1983 (age 40) ( 1983-07-17 ) Zadar, Croatia Occupation Businessman, Actor, TV host | ||
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 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.
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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 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. After that time he was invited to audition for a grand project My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad and got the part as the leading TV host. During that time Jericevic appeared in a theatre play Tablica Dijeljenja 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. He also appeared as criminal inspector in popular television series Ruža Vjetrova on RTL.