May-Linda Kosumovic was born and raised in Canada. At a young age her parents decided to move back to their birthplace, Kosovo, where she would graduate from the Academy of Arts. Since then, she has been the lead in many short and feature films which have traveled to numerous international film festivals including: Locarno, San Sebastian, Cairo, IFFI, Tallinn, Goteborg; while equally performing on stage for various plays at the National Theatre of Kosovo, where she has been a resident from 2015. Moreover, she has 5 national and international awards for film and theatre performances. May-Linda has also played a dominant part in the HBO Europe series "Welcome to Utmark" which has been released on April 18th 2021. Her language skills were put to test at Talents Sarajevo in 2018, where she would have to communicate in English, Serbo-Croation, French and Albanian.