Melpomeni Çobani, a variety (cabaret) actress and People’s Artist, was born in Tirana. In 1945, she joined the amateur theater group of Tirana. In 1949, she was accepted into the National Theater, where she primarily played comedic roles, such as Hajrija in (“Prefekti”) (“The Prefect”) by Besim Levonja. In 1955, she became an actress in the State Estrada , where she worked for about 30 years, performing over 600 diverse characters in short genres of humor and satire. She passed away in Tirana in 2016.
Text: Albanian Encyclopedic Dictionary – Vol. 1, Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH,” Tirana, 2008, page 400
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