Emir Hadzihafizbegovic

On January 12, 2020, the video of topless and drunk Hadžihafizbegović was posted on YouTube. Because of it, he has met with fierce criticism from media.

Hadžihafizbegović is a member of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA). He served as Minister of Culture and Sports of Sarajevo Canton from 2007 to 2011, and since 5 October 2019, has been part of the Presidency of SDA.

On January 19, 2018, Hadžihafizbegović insulted and then kicked a journalist out of his office. On March 5, 2020, was posted the video of Hadžihafizbegović insulting a journalist after question about dubious allocation of funds of the Foundation for Cinematography of which he is a Board member.

On March 11, 2016, Hadžihafizbegović admitted guilt and was put on probation for four years and sentenced to one year imprisonment by the Municipal Criminal Court in Sisak, which will be suspended if he does not commit another criminal offense by 2020. Expert witness testimony at the trial also established that the actor had exceeded the speed limit the night of the accident and had attempted to drive around a parked car. Following the crash, Hadžihafizbegović befriended the victims daughter Lana.

Hadžihafizbegović was involved in a fatal car accident on the night of October 12, 2014 in the village Bročice near Novska, Croatia, when he accidentally hit the driver and one of the two passengers of another car who were standing on the left side of the highway repairing a flat tire. One of the people he hit was 63-year-old Ankica Kuduz, mother of Croatian model Lana Kuduz, who died soon after of her injuries in a Nova Gradiška hospital. The driver and Hadžihafizbegović were also hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.

In 1996 he started to work at the National Theater of Sarajevo. Achieved more than 80 roles in theater and on TV. He is working as the theatre, television and film actor.

His career went on hiatus in 1992 due to the breakup of Yugoslavia and the breakout of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Hadžihafizbegović reappeared in Bosnian cinema in the 2003 war film Remake, by screenwriter Zlatko Topčić. Since that film, Hadžihafizbegović has appeared in 40 more films, mostly as a lead role and in some sitcoms as well, most notably Lud, zbunjen, normalan and Konak kod Hilmije.

The war years he spent (1991 - 1995) in the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) and Croatian Defence Council (HVO).

Hadžihafizbegović's wife is Aida Hadžihafizbegović. Together they have two children: a son Edin (born 1990) and a daughter Amra (born 1994).

From 1989 to 1992 he worked at the Folk theater in Tuzla.

He graduated acting at the Academy of performing arts in Sarajevo in 1986.

He made his film debut as Fahro Zulfikarpašić in the film When Father Was Away on Business (1985), written by Abdulah Sidran and directed by Emir Kusturica. Hadžihafizbegović appeared in two television films and a guest role on a Yugoslav television series before landing the role of a bartender from Bosansko Grahovo in the 1987 film Hajde da se volimo 2 with Bosnian pop star Lepa Brena, as well popular Yugoslav actors Bata Živojinović and Dragomir Bojanić. He revisited his role in Hajde da se volimo 3 (1990).

Originally an aspiring sports reporter, Hadžihafizbegović moved to Sarajevo and entered the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo in 1982, receiving his diploma in 1986.

Emir Hadzihafisbegovic was born on 20th of August 1961 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.