Bekim Fehmiu

Bekim Fehmiu

Bekim Fehmiu was a Yugoslavian theater and film actor of Albanian ethnicity. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War.

Fehmiu was born in Sarajevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia to Albanian parents. His family descends from merchant family of Imer Halili from the town of Gjakova in Kosovo; his father Ibrahim took his high-school nickname Fehmiu as a surname. In 1941, his family permanently moved to Prizren in Kosovo, where Bekim spent his childhood. He was part of the acting club at his high school in Prizren, and after graduation he became a member of County popular theatre in Pristina, the only professional Albanian language theatre in Yugoslavia. He graduated from the Faculty of Drama Arts (FDU) in Belgrade

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