Today the great actress Tinka Kurti celebrates her 90th birthday. Kurti has given a lot to the Albanian scene and every time she performs in films she is honored.

Tinka Kurti was born in Sarajevo on December 17, 1932, but she said: “I am an actress from Shkodra. There I have my love and pain, longing and hostages”. In this journey of superior communication, this example of a female teacher, has performed more than 120 roles in the memory of cinema and theater.

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 Tirana Polytechnic.

As Tinka Kurti herself often says, she accidentally enrolled to study Drama at the Drama High School of that time. Shortly after she started studying in this branch, 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 on 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.

Tinka for her artistic career has been awarded with other Awards and Titles as Merited Artist & People’s Artist 1961, with the “Grand Master” order awarded by the President of the Republic for her artistic activity.

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