Andrej Hrn%C4%8Diar

Andrej Hrniar is a Slovak professional actor and politician, who has been serving as mayor of the city of Martin since 2006. He had been a professional actor and a restaurant and bar owner before he decided to run in the 2006 mayoral election as an independent.

Hrniar was bornJuly 1973 in the northern city of Ruzomberok , in what was then Czechoslovakia. However shortly after his birth his family relocated to the adjacent village of Liptovsk Liskov, where he was raised. He returned to Ruzomberok in to attend upper secondary school between 1987 and 1991. After graduating, he enrolled in the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava where he would study drama and acting. After graduating with a masters degree in acting, he moved to the United States, where he would work a number of odd jobs, including as a sanitation worker and construction.

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