As a seventeen year old actor she burst onto Yugoslav theatre scene with Relatively Free Group Jardin and their legendary Avantgarde showRock’n Roll Cabaret Studio for Image.

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...If any girl in the country can be called a “wonder-child” , Cynthia Ashperger, the twenty year old actress from Zagreb definitely qualifies for the title”
— ITD Magazine 1983

(Selected credits)

Audiences and critics loved her as Eve Harrington in musical Applause directed by Broadway director Gene Foote in Komedia Theatre in Zagreb:

I had the great privilege of Staging “Applause” in Zagreb, Croatia, and this amazing actress played Eve. Her name, Cynthia Ashperger, and she was perfection in the role.
— (Gene Foote)

Shakespeare

In Croatia she played Helena in Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lady Anne in Richard III and in Canada Ophelia in Hamlet.

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Greta in Bent.

Performing Nina Hagen’s version of Sinatra’s My Way un Martin Sherman’s Bent.

Her first starring film role was in SPUK directed by M. Puhlovski.

Big and Little by Botho Strauss directed by Sigrid Herzog. Harbourfront Centre.

Wedding Certificate by Efraim Kishon music by Alfi Kabiljo at Komedia Theatre.

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Left with Sanda Langerholz. Right with Vili Matula.

Left with Sanda Langerholz. Right with Vili Matula.

Feature Film

Promised Land (Obećana zemlja)

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1990-2000