Rina Krasniqi

Rina Krasniqi was born in Pristina, Kosovo in 1996 in the midst of the Yugoslav war. Her parents, both long standing professionals in the cultural industry, influenced her to start performing and acting at a very early age. At four years old, she was on stage singing 'Daba Daba', one of the most well known Kosovar children's songs. A song that has since become an anthem for her generation and many others. During her childhood she further explored her talents in music, performing, and excelling in her training to become a singer: an alto, and a musician: piano, guitar and percussion. In 2014, she was awarded a full scholarship to pursue her studies at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pristina. Throughout the entirety of her studies, Rina made appearances in several popular TV sitcoms in Kosovo: Çka ka Shpija (2015), O sa mirë (2017), and Egjeli (2018). She never abandoned her passion for the stage, appearing in numerous theatre plays: 'World War III' by Florent Mehmeti and 'Doll Factory' by Naser Shatrolli. Rina Krasniqi later graduated top in her Masters for Acting in the stunning performance of Shakespeare's 'Lady Macbeth'. She has received the 'Best MonoStrip Award' at the International Monodrama Festival in 2017 and 'Kosovo's Rising Stars' at the 2019 Pristina International Film festival (PriFest). She is considered one of the most promising young actors out of Kosovo and Eastern Europe. In 2019, upon graduating, Rina was casted for the leading role (where she has been brilliantly portraying the role of a sworn virgin in the rural Mountains of Albania) in the 'The Albanian Virgin' (2021), a German-Belgian-Albanian coproduction. In 2022 she will star as a mute shamanistic healer in an Italian-Bosnian-Croatian coproduction 'Illyricum'.