Goran Visnjic, who played Dr. Luka Kovac on ER, and his wife Ivana adopted a baby born at Cedars Sinai Medical Hospital on April 19. Yes, a celebrity actually went the local, rather than international adoption route. They named the baby Tin, after the famous Croatian poet. It's also a damn cute name. Ivana was present for the birth and cut the umbilical cord, but Goran stayed away to avoid the publicity. There's something kind of sad about having to miss the baby's birth due to paparazzi.
Congratulations to the couple. By the time Goran joined ER, my interest in the show had seriously waned, but whoa baby, was he ever sexier than Noah Wylie. When Luka made his appearance, I remember thinking, "That man has some seriously hot nostrils." He had that tragic past, and had just come from a war zone, so he was all dark and broody and pained. Although I think by the time he showed up, County General Hospital had already seen more violence than most war zones. And that's just counting stabbings and shootings inside the ER itself.
Um, is ER still on? So you know, Visnjic has done other stuff, like starring in the films The Deep End and The Peacemaker (with George Clooney, who he replaced on ER. Everybody, gather round for six degrees of Kevin Bacon!) And here's trivia for those of us who have only seen kid movies for an eternity now: he was the voice of Soto, the mean saber tooth from the movie, Ice Age. Yeah, that guy.
