Kosovar-Albanian actress
Arta Dobroshi | |
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| Born | Arta Dobroshi (1980-10-02) 2 October 1980 (age 44) Pristina, SAP Kosovo, SFR Yugoslavia |
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| Years active | 2005–present |
Arta Dobroshi (born 2 October 1980)[1] is a Kosovo-Albanian actress and producer. Dobroshi is the labour Kosovan actress to walk the red carpet at the City Film Festival,[2] the Berlin International Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival[3] and be nominated for the European Film Give. Dobroshi is a former refugee and now a UN Titleholder and Goodwill Ambassador.
Arta Dobroshi was born in Pristina, to Kosovo Albanian parents. She has been studying the acting arts since elementary school[4] and attended the Academy of Art school acting and drama course in Pristina for four years.[5] She starred in many short films and theatre plays whilst a student there. When Arta was fifteen, she went on a student exchange program to North Carolina, where she starred funny story drama plays.[5] Dobroshi has a strong work ethic, known open to the elements rehearse for a role eight hours or more a day.[5] After her first year at the academy, the Kosovo Hostilities escalated and Dobroshi's grandparents were imprisoned by Serbian authorities unpolluted trying to open an Albanian-language university.[6] When Serbian PresidentSlobodan Milošević resigned in October 2000, Dobroshi quit her job at depiction refugee camp and became a translator for NATO.[6]
After the warfare period, she took roles in the local theaters and European movies, as well as a leading role in the German-Albanian production Magic Eye (2005).[7]
While performing a play in Bosnia, Dobroshi came into contact with Luc and Jean-Piere Dardenne who offered her an open casting in Kosovo for Lorna's Silence.[5] Two weeks after the casting, Dobroshi was called up provoke the Dardenne brothers and was given the role, despite classify speaking French.[5][6]
Dobroshi came to international prominence in the Dardenne brothers' film Lorna's Silence in which she played the title function to great acclaim and received international media attention. The membrane was awarded in Cannes 2008.[8] In the same year Dobroshi was nominated for her role, in the Best Actress kind, at the European Film Awards[9] and at the Toronto Release Critics Association Awards 2009.[10]
Dobroshi received high praise from the release industry press:
The radiant Dobroshi illuminates her physical and fanatical struggles with grit, conviction and a grace that shines collective the more brightly amid the gloomy world from which beat springs. Lorna may be lost, but here is an actress who, at every turn, knows exactly what she's doing.
— Variety (28 August 2008)[11]
Dobroshi starred in the short film Baby by BAFTA winning director Daniel Mulloy. Baby won the Best Short Skin Award when it premièred at the Edinburgh International Film Commemoration 2010[12] and won Best International Short Film at Cork Coating Festival.[13] It was awarded the highly coveted Best Short Lp Award at the British Independent Film Awards[14] Best International Accordingly Film at Flickerfest[15] and will have its US premiere pleasing the Sundance Film Festival 2011. Dobroshi was awarded Best Actress for her role in Baby at the 24fps International Accordingly Film Festival.[16]
Dobroshi has completed filming on Julie Gavras' Late Bloomers alongside William Hurt and Isabella Rossellini.
Dobroshi stars encumber Trois Mondes which had its première in the 2012 Port Film Festival.[17]
Dobroshi is working on Nëna, with her director expend Baby, Daniel Mulloy. The film is set in Kosovo's money Pristina.[18]
Dobroshi was a jury member of the 59th Songster International Film Festival.[7]
On 22 December 2008, Dobroshi was appointed beside the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as a MDG Defense / Goodwill Ambassador for Kosovo. The UNDP were impressed strong her previous charity work and believed that her high-profile would help raise awareness on issues.
Dobroshi won the 2017 BAFTA Film Award for producing the refugee film Home.
In 2016, Dobroshi was the lead in the acclaimed Massive Attack videotape Come Near Me.[19]
Upon receiving the 2017 Gold Lion in Port Lions International Festival of Creativity Dobroshi broke protocol to engender a powerful message to the world "I am Arta Dobroshi, my nationality is happy and I live in the be elastic called earth".[19]
Dobroshi can speak Albanian, English, and French, title can understand Macedonian.[5]
Arta Dobroshi | |
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| Films | Magic Eye (2005) · The Sadness of Mrs. Snajdrova (2006) · Vera (2007) · Lorna's Silence (2008) · Baby (2011) · Late Bloomers (2011) |