# Stefan Kapičić

Stefan Kapičić (Serbian Cyrillic: Стефан Капичић; born 1 December 1978) is a Serbian actor best known for his role of Colossus in Deadpool (2016), Deadpool 2 (2018), and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). He is also one of three members of the Council for Film Industry of Montenegro.

## Early life

Kapičić was born 1 December 1978 in Cologne, West Germany, the son of Slobodanka "Beba" Žugić, a Montenegrin actress, and Dragan Kapičić, a retired Serbian basketball player. His father played for Saturn Köln during that time. At three years of age the family returned to SFR Yugoslavia. His grandfather Jovo Kapičić bought him his first comic book when he was six years old, which sparked what he called an "ongoing love" in a 2015 interview about his role in Deadpool. He studied acting at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. He speaks Serbian, English, German and Russian.

## Career

Kapičić played the role of his own father in the 2015 film Bićemo prvaci sveta (We Will Be World Champions) about the Yugoslavian national basketball team which won the 1970 FIBA World Championship.
By 2015, Kapičić had accumulated more than 80 roles in television, film, and theater. He made it to the second round of a secret casting process for the X-Man Colossus in the superhero film Deadpool, learning what the production was only after he passed that round. Working with first-time director Tim Miller in Los Angeles, Kapičić did 120 takes during his third call of auditions, stretching the session an additional eight hours beyond its intended four-hour duration, before flying back to Dubrovnik, Croatia to perform Romeo and Juliet. Kapičić, a self-described "comic book geek" who considered Deadpool one of his favorite characters, was especially delighted when he learned he won the role, taking over from Daniel Cudmore, who had played the role in the X-Men films. Kapičić was selected because Miller wanted his version of Colossus, who is Russian in the comics, to have a Russian accent. The 6-foot-4 Kapičić portrayed the 7-and-a-half-foot tall character through a combination of voice work and motion capture, completing filming in mid-December 2015, eight weeks before the film's 12 February 2016 release date.
In 2023, he appeared as Olgaren in The Last Voyage of the Demeter.

## Personal life

In December 2015, Kapičić became engaged to Croatian actress Ivana Horvat. They were married in 2017.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 2002 | Kordon | | |
| 2003 | Citravita | Policeman in a Batman shirt | Short |
| 2003 | Skoro sasvim obična priča | Bane Leskovac | |
| 2004 | Slobodan pad | Nikola | Short |
| 2004 | Ulični hodač | | |
| 2004 | O štetnosti duvana | Ahmed Crni Arapin | |
| 2006 | Ne skreći sa staze | Gej Deda Mraz | |
| 2008 | Čarlston za Ognjenku | Arsa 'Kralj čarlstona' | |
| 2008 | The Brothers Bloom | German Bar Owner | |
| 2012 | Big Miracle | Yuri | |
| 2012 | Larin izbor: Izgubljeni princ | Nikša Ivanov | |
| 2013 | Hitac | Crni | |
| 2015 | Bićemo prvaci sveta | Dragan Kapičić | |
| 2016 | Deadpool | Colossus | |
| 2018 | Deadpool 2 | Colossus | Voice and MoCap |
| 2023 | The Last Voyage of the Demeter | Olgaren | |
| 2023 | Slotherhouse | Oliver | |
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | Colossus | Also MoCap |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2006–2007 | Obični ljudi | Igor Nikolić | 111 episodes |
| 2008 | Vratiće se rode | Dizajner Mitrović Dečanski | |
| 2008 | The Unit | Dragan | Episode: "Sex Trade" |
| 2008 | Numb3rs | Lee Hagopian | Episode: "Scan Man" |
| 2010 | 24 | Davros' Operative | Episode: "Day 8: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m." |
| 2011 | The Event | Dimitri Jelavitch | Episode: "Strain" |
| 2011–2013 | Larin izbor | Nikša Ivanov | 251 episodes |
| 2013 | Stella | Zac | Guest star |
| 2013–2014 | Zora dubrovačka | Rocco Sorgo | 48 episodes |
| 2015 | Andrija i Anđelka | Tonči | |
| 2016 | Prvaci sveta | Dragan Kapičić | |
| 2018 | Counterpart | Lieber | |
| 2018–2022 | Better Call Saul | Casper | 6 episodes |
| 2019 | Love, Death & Robots | Lt. Nikolai Zakharov (voice) | Episode: "The Secret War" |
| 2022 | Chicago Med | Nikola Corluka | Season 7 Episode 22 "End of the day, anything can happen" |

### Serbian dubs

| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 2004 | Pokémon | James | Seasons 1–5 |
| 2006 | Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties | Winston | |
| 2006 | Open Season | Shaw | |
| 2006 | Return to Never Land | Captain Hook | |
| 2015 | Animal Kingdom: Let's Go Ape | Édouard | |
| 2015 | Inside Out | Riley's Father | |
| 2016 | The Good Dinosaur | Poppa Henry | |

### Video games

| Year | Title | Voice role |
| 2019 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | Nikolai, J-12 |
| 2022 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II | Nikolai |
| 2023 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III | Nikolai |