[3] Her body of work, spanning 60 years, includes more than 50 feature movies and 150 theatre plays has been awarded her with the People's Artist of Albania medal.

Tinka was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) to an Albanian father and Hungarian mother.

She made her first theatre appearance at the age of 16, a minor role, in the play Dasma Shkodrane (Wedding from Shkodra.)

Such plays include "Gjaku i Arbrit", "Histori Irkutase", "Toka Jonë", "Fisheku në pajë" and "Fejesa e Çehovit".

What followed was an endless series of film roles that would rightfully make her name a treasure of Albanian art.