Mike Dusi

Mike Dusi was born on the 11^th March 1981. He is an Albanian-American actor and a producer.

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Early Life

Dusi’s family originally is from Albania. He was raised in Queens, New York and he resides in Los Angeles, California. Originally he trained as an MCSE, though he dropped it when it could not fit into his active lifestyle. He was later introduced to acting by his cousin, though he did not take it serious until he arrived at Los Angeles.

Career

Dusi likes action and comedy movies as he uses his Shotokan skills in them. The latest film that he appeared on is called Mikeyboy that he produced. The movie tells the semi-autobiographical story of an Albanian-American family that work in Pizzeria and share their contemporary custom. In the year 2011, he was a co-producer on the movie, All's Faire in Love, it was a comedy film that explained the dueling renaissance fairs.

Filmography

• Desert of Blood (2006)
• Dorm of the Dead (2006)
• All's Faire In Love (2009), associate producer
• Hit and Run (2009)
• Ecommando (2010)
• Kissing Strangers (2010)
• Amy Allyson Fans (2011)
• Mikeyboy (2013)
• A Foreign Exchange Love (2014)

Kreshnik Xhelilaj

Kreshnik Xhelilaj was born on the 5^th March 1983. He is popularly known with his stage name Nik Xhelikaj. He is a stage actor and film actor from Albania. He started his movie career with the film called ‘The Sadness of Mrs. Snajdrova’, which was directed by Pirro Milkani and was the leading actor in three critically commended films from his country in the last few years, and two of the films went into the List of Albanian submissions for the academy Award for best foreign language movie in the year 2008 and in the year 2009. Nik has collected many Best Actor Awards in different international film festivals.

Biography

Nik was born in Tirana on the 5^th March 1983 in a family that is originally from Albania. His father was born in Vlore and the mother was born in Tepelena. His parents are high military officers by profession. At the age of 14, he went to instanbu to join the military high school, but his new path never lasted for over 7 months and he changed his mind and decided to give up the chase of a military career and come back to Albania. Eventually, he was involved with some two artist from the country into the Sirea Film projects, with the directors Leonard Bombaj and Alfred Trebicka that adviced him to contest and sign up for the Fine Art Academy. He was first a candidate in the Faculty of Law, but he did not win.

In the year 2004 when he was 21, he went into the Fine Art Academy for acting. In the year 2005, after he came through with his freshman year, he was selected by a movie director, Pirro Milkani to play a leading role of Leke Seriani in the movie called The Sadness of Mrs. Snajdrova that had strong elements of autobiography.  It was with the movie that he became popular. The movie was released in the year 2008 ad was the Albanian Submission of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for the year 2008, but the film failed to be voted.

Filmography

• Single Use (short length film) - 2005
• Trishtimi i zonjës Shnajder (The Sadness of Mrs. Snajdrova) - filmed in 2005, released in 2008
• Gjallë! (Alive!) - 2009
• Der Albaner - 2010
• Kayıp Şehir-Lost City (Turkish TV Series) - 2012

Theatre

• Këmbanat e Muzgut (English: Dusk's Bells) - National Theatre, 2007
  Directors: Alfred Bualioti, Andon Qesari
  Leading role: Lieutenant Llukan
• A Streetcar Named Desire (play) by Tennessee Williams - Academy of Arts of Albania, 2007
  Director: Timo Flloko
  Leading role: Stanley Kovalsky
• Tango (drama) by Slavomir Mrozek - Theater "Aleksandër Moisiu", Durrës, 2008
  Director: Driada Dervishi
  Leading role: Arthur.