92 years since the birth of the icon of Albanian cinematography, Tinka Kurti

Today is 92 years since the birth of the great artist of the Albanian stage and cinema, Tinka Kurti

Kurti was born on December 17, 1932 in Sarajevo. She was born and raised in an art-loving family as her mother was a leading actress in the National Theater of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina in her youth.

She received her 7-year basic education in Sarajevo and when she was only 13 years old her family moved to the city of Tirana where she continued her studies at the Polytechnic of Tirana.

She accidentally enrolled to study Drama at the Drama High School of the time. Shortly after she started studying in this specialty, she was expelled from school with the motivation of "showing liberal tendencies".

It was the director Andrea Skanjeti who spotted her extraordinary talent to bring Tinka back to the stage once again with the show "Shkodrane Wedding". After the establishment of the "Migjeni" Theater in the city of Shkodra, she became part of the troupe as a semi-professional actress and was also among the 10 actors who founded the institution of the city of Shkodra.

It was the "Best Actress of the Republic" award and the festival cup at the first Albanian Theater Festival that elevated the actress Tinka Kurti to the category of professional actors with her role in "Our Land" directed by Kol Jakova.

During her career, the actress Tinka Kurti has performed about 260 roles on the stage of the theater and 95 roles in cinematography.

In 1994 she entered the Encyclopedia of the American Biographical Institute as one of the 5,000 most outstanding women in the world and even on December 17, 2007 she was invited to Washington (USA) to place a marble plaque with her name in this Institute.

Her most recent role would be in cinematography in the film "Bota" (2014).

Tinka for her artistic career has been awarded with other Awards and Titles such as Merited Artist & People's Artist 1961, with the "Grand Master" order granted by the President of the Republic for her artistic activity. /atsh/

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