Liza Vorfi was an Albanian

Albanians

Albanians are a nation and ethnic group native to Albania and neighbouring countries. They speak the Albanian language. More than half of all Albanians live in Albania and Kosovo...

 stage actress and singer.

Biography

In 1932 Vorfi's family moved to Tirana

Tirana

Tirana is the capital and the largest city of Albania. Modern Tirana was founded as an Ottoman town in 1614 by Sulejman Bargjini, a local ruler from Mullet, although the area has been continuously inhabited since antiquity. Tirana became Albania's capital city in 1920 and has a population of over...

 from Gjakovë, in today's Kosovo

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. She started her artistic career in 1939 as a singer on Radio Tirana.
Between 1939-1943 she studied in Italy in the Rome Conservatory and then she continued her studies in Pesaro

Pesaro

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. In 1945 she returned to Albania to appear on the stage as an actress. Along with Behije Cela she was one of the first female actresses of the National Theatre of Albania. She played her first role in “Gjido”. In her long career she interpreted more than 60 roles on stage and also appeared in films. After Vorfi's husband was put in prison along with many intellectuals that had studied in Austria, Vorfi was expelled from the National Theatre for a year.

Vorfi died at the age of 86 on January 29, 2011.