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Flamur Aljiji (born 28 November 1991) is a German-Albanian film actor and model.

Flamur Aljiji was born in Tetovo, northern Macedonia, and grew up in Tearce. His parents are of Albanian descent: his father comes from Tetovo, while his mother lives in Prizren.

In 2003, Aljiji moved to Germany, where his father had been living for some time. While at school, Aljiji had to work hard for his father’s business. One of his greatest aspirations, however, had always been medicine, a profession he could not pursue for both financial and familial reasons. Still, Aljiji was convinced that proper education was crucial to finding success in his new home. This conviction brought him to Germany’s capital city, Berlin, where he sought out and applied for a training programme at the Ullsteinhaus Clinic. Aljiji successfully completed his studies three years later in 2014.

Despite the enormous workload German medical schools are known for, the aspiring actor was already contributing to several film projects. It was at that time that he realised his acting had become much more than a mere hobby. One night, while sifting through advertisements online, he stumbled upon one by the Berlin Academy for Film and Theatre and decided to give it a try. The bet panned out - very soon Aljiji received a few roles at the famous Ballhaus and moved on to join his very first television series, the critically acclaimed German show Good Times, Bad Times. Numerous film and TV projects followed soon thereafter.

In 2015, Aljiji was cast by the prominent director Matthias Schweighöfer in his new project The Nanny, which marked the actor’s first appearance in a feature film. In 2016, he played the role of a mentally ill patient in Emma und die Wut, and later appeared as a cab driver in Fikkefuchs. Shortly after the release of the latter film, in which he co-starred with Franz Rogowski and Jan Henrik Stahlberg, Netflix acquired the right to stream it along with major German television broadcasters.

Aljiji’s first English-language role was in Chocolate Man, an action film produced for SWR and screened at film festivals Europe.

Aljiji is a hobby musician and plays various musical instruments, including the piano and the guitar. His activities include a long-standing history with Jetimat e Ballkanit, a relief charity founded by the renowned Albanian human rights activist Halil Kastrati. In 2019, Aljiji participated in the annual event held by the charity to distribute food among the destitute and the poor.