Arta Debroshi

Arta Debroshi was born on the 2^nd October 1980. She is a Kosovo-Albanian actress. She is noticed for her striking manifestation and her ability to breathe reliable life into the roles that she always play in the movie. She is the first actress in the history of movie in the country to walk the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival and the Sundance Film festival and be selected for the European Film Award.

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Early Life

Arta Dobroshi was born in Pristina, SFR Yugoslavia to Kosovo Albanian parents. She has been in the study of the performing arts since her primary education and she went to Academy of Arts acting drama course in Pristina and that lasted for years. She took part in many short films and theatre plays while she was still a student. When she was 15, she went on a student exchange program to America where she acted a drama play. She has a strong work tenet, known to prepare for just 8 hours or a day.

Career

After the War time, she took roles in the local theatre of the country and in the movies of Albania and also a leading role in the prize-winning German-Albanian production magic eye in the year 2005, a film about a situation in the country, Albania in the year 1997, when it was rocked by unrest.

While she was in Sarajevo acting a play, Dobroshi met with the Dardenne brothers and they offered her an open casting in Kosovo for Lorna’s Silence. Two weeks after the casting of the movie, she was called up by the Dardenne brothers, who were asking her to go to Belgium to do play in French together with Jeremie Renier and Fabrizio Rongione. After knowing phoneticall scenes of the movie and after the two days casting of the movie, she was given the role to play in the movie. She mastered the French language within eight weeks prior to the shooting of the film.

Debroshi became popular internationally for her depiction of Lorna in Luc and Jean-Piere Dardenne’s movie called Lorna Silence that she played the title character to great approval and got the attention of the international media. The film was awarded in Cannes 2008. In that same year, she was nominated for her function in the Best Actress part, at the European film Awards and at the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards in the year 2009. This was the 4^th movie that she took part in, and that was a jump in her profession. International popularity and acclamation coming with it, and that was what attracted some global attention to her. Dobroshi participated in the movie called BABY by BAFTA. The movie won the Best Short Movie Award when it was first see in the Edinburgh International Film festival in the year 2010, and the film won the Best International Short Film at the Cork Film festival. It was awarded the highly coveted Best Short Film Award that was held at the British Independent Film Awards. The film also won the Best International Short film at the Flickerfest. Dobroshi won the best Actress for the function she played in the movie at the 24fps international short film festival.

Dobroshi has finished the filming of theJulie Gavras’ movie called Late Bloomers together with William Hurt and Isabella Rossellini. She has featured in couple of other movies and she is working on Nena with her director from the movie called Baby, Daniel Mulloy. The movie is set in the Capital Pristina. The movie will see the actress accept her for the first time in her own country for many years. The film that will be shot in the official language of Albania will be financed by UNDP and it is the first project that will see the actress as the producer.

Awards

• Shooting Stars Award (2013) — at the Berlin International Film Festival
• Berlin Film Festival (2013) — European Film Shooting Star by European Film Promotion
• Women's International Film and Television Showcase LA 2012, Best Actress Award
• European Film Award of the year 2008, Nomination as Best Actress
• Toronto Film Critics Association Awards of the year 2009, Nomination as Best Actress
• Skopje International Film Festival, Best Actress