Katarina Cas

With a vibrant personality and natural beauty, Katarina Cas was a Slovenian actress who rose to prominence as the host of the Slovene music program "Aritmija" (RTV Slovenija 2005) and her role in Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" (2013). Cas was born in Slovenj Gradec, a small town of Slovenia that was then part of Yugoslavia. Cas was comfortable in front of the cameras at an early age. Before she was a teenager in 1988, she made her first televised appearance in a commercial for the popular Slovene soft drink, Cokta. In the very next year, Cas was cast in her very first feature film, the teen movie "Peklenski načrt" (1989). Instead of jumping straight into an acting career, Cas completed her education and graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Ljubljana. In the late nineties, she rejoined the entertainment industry hosting a couple of youth-oriented music programs for Slovene television. Beginning in 1997, she hosted an MTV-like music show called "Atlantis" that aired in Slovenia's first commercial broadcast station, Kanal A. Her next big hosting gig was for Slovenia's national public broadcast station, RTV Slovenija. As the face of station's music program, "Aritmija," Cas popularity began to rise. Her beauty and personality caught the eye of Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese, who cast her in his satire of the excesses of the finance industry in the 1990s, "The Wolf of Wall Street," where she was famously seen wearing a bikini made of money with the intent of smuggling the cash into Switzerland.