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Robert Ndrenika

Albanian actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ3302382
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Robert Ndrenika (born 10 January 1942) is an Albanian actor, honored with the People's Artist of Albania award in 1988. He was active in films, but also in theater and television performing hundreds of leading and supporting roles.

Biography

Ndrenika studied at the Qemal Stafa High School, in Tirana, Albania.

He was a member of Parliament of Albania from 1992–1996, representing the Democratic Party of Albania.

In 1998, Ndrenika was honoured with People's Artist of Albania decoration, becoming one of the few actors to have this decoration. In 2012, he was decorated with Honor of Nation Order by president Bamir Topi for his contributions in Albanian cinematography.

Ndrenika has two daughters. His wife Polikseni Ndrenika, died in 2008. The loss of his wife kept him away from acting for the next four years. He returned on stage in April 2012.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Robert Ndrenika” is albanian actor. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Robert, Ndrenika and Albanian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1942, 1988, 1992, 1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1942-01-10. For this dossier, Robert, Ndrenika and Albanian is the immediate research focus.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3302382. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1942, 1988, 1992 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from Robert Ndrenika” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.