Biography

Slavitza Jovan was born on December 28, 1954 in Yugoslavia. She is an actress, known for Ghostbusters (1984), Body Double (1984) and House on Haunted Hill (1999).

Her voice in Ghostbusters (1984) was dubbed by the late Paddi Edwards.

[on being cast as Gozer in 'Ghostbusters']: I was doing lots of modeling, like runway shows and things like that. For my audition, I was just following my own ideas about how she needs to be, between the classical and the futuristic, a type of timelessness. I was doing this goddess type of thing, like she's strong and powerful, like she's an almost arrogant Roman empress. Regular humans are kind of beneath her.

[on playing Gozer]: Those contact lenses were painted red, so that I don't see anything. Going all the way up the stairs-it's like acting blind. That was kind of a challenge-to stand in the proper place. To where I'm looking, and then looking all the way down. And then, I'm kind of flying up in the air and then landing on a rock or something, so I was a little bit scared. We worked on it for three weeks, and that outfit was like a body stocking—to give that effect of something like the skin of Gozer. They had to sew it up on the back, so I was stuck in this outfit. It wasn't that comfortable, but I guess that's how it goes.