Lidija VukiÃÂeviÃÂ (; born 20 July 1962) is a Serbian film and TV actress and politician.
Best known for playing the role of Violeta a.k.a. Viki, daughter of the central Popadiàfamily on the hugely popular Bolji à ¾ivot television series, VukiÃÂeviÃÂ's acting career peaked throughout the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s.
From 2004 until 2012, she was also politically involved with the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), serving as their MP in the Serbian parliament from 2007 until 2012.
She originates from the VasojeviÃÂi clan.
Following several small roles on film and television, her cinematic career in Yugoslavia was launched in 1985 after being cast in 's ', the seventh instalment of the Lude godine popular folksy comedy film series. Twenty two years of age at the time, VukiÃÂeviÃÂ played the role of sexy housemaid Lilika.
The exposure on à ½ikina dinastija, and especially regular appearances on Bolji à ¾ivot, led to more roles in Yugoslav movies such as the lead in ' (also written and directed by ÃÂaliÃÂ), playing a beautiful small town Gypsy budding folk singer arriving in Belgrade to perform at a kafana in pursuit of a singing career. Then came prominent supporting roles in ' and ' (second instalment of ÃÂaliÃÂ's film series) that roughly fall into the same genre as à ½ikina dinastija.
Her attractive looks and sex appeal were a prominent feature of all of her early cinematic roles.
In 2004, VukiÃÂeviàjoined the opposition Serbian Radical Party (SRS), a political organization whose leader Vojislav à  eà ¡elj had already been detained in The Hague for over a year, awaiting trial at the international criminal tribunal. In his absence, the party that won 27.62% of the popular vote at the most recent parliamentary election and held 82 National Assembly seats (more than any other individual party in Serbia at the time), was led by Tomislav NikoliÃÂ, Aleksandar VuÃÂiÃÂ, and Dragan TodoroviÃÂ.
For the 2007 parliamentary elections, VukiÃÂeviàwas named on the SRS electoral list. Following the electionâÂÂthat again saw the party perform successfully with 29.07% of the popular voteâÂÂshe became one of its 81 MPs. The following year, in September 2008, as the SRS underwent a bitter splitâÂÂwith many of its members, led by top-ranking officials Nikoliàand VuÃÂiÃÂ, leaving to form the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS)âÂÂVukiÃÂeviàdecided to stay loyal to the SRS.
Along with a significant number of prominent party members, she left the SRS following the 2012 elections where the party won only 4.62% of the popular voteâÂÂbelow the 5% parliamentary threshold, meaning it failed to obtain any parliamentary seats. Reportedly, à  eà ¡elj's personnel decisions following the election fiasco, such as naming Vjerica Radeta as the new party vice-president, precipitated the mass exodus from the SRS.
During the early 1990s, VukiÃÂeviÃÂ began dating the professional footballer Mitar Mrkela, three years her junior, playing with Red Star Belgrade at the time. They got married in 1991 and VukiÃÂeviÃÂ moved to Enschede, Netherlands, joining Mrkela who had in the meantime transferred to a club there. In 1992, they had a child, son Andrej, who would follow in his father's footsteps by becoming a professional footballer and later football administrator. Their second son, David, was born in 1997.
The couple divorced in 2000.
In the early 2000s, she was reportedly in a relationship with the Yugoslav Army's former Chief of the General Staff, colonel general Nebojà ¡a PavkoviÃÂ.