Ljuma Penov was born in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. She is engaged in humanitarian work with several organizations in Belgrade and Serbia. Since she was a child she studied classical ballet, later on besides classical she attended modern dance as well. She finished solo singing studio in Belgrade. She graduated from the secondary school of music in Novi Sad. She studied at the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of History (University of Novi Sad, Serbia). She studied at Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, studied and graduated from the Academy of Arts (University of Novi Sad, Serbia).She played and plays in numerous theaters such as Yugoslav Drama Theatre Belgrade, National Theatre Belgrade, SKC Belgrade, National Theatre in Subotica, Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad, Istrian National Theatre (Pula, Croatia), Cankar Hall, (Slovenia, Ljubljana). Among other numerous film roles to wider audience she is known for her parts in “Honeymoons”, "Crna Zorica" - “Loveless Zoritsa”,Zlatna levica, priča o Radivoju Koraću" (“Zucko – the story of Radivoj Korac""), and others.
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