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Demet Akbağ

ActorBorn December 23, 1959 (65 years)
Demet Akbağ (born 23 December 1959) is a Turkish theatre and film actress.

Demet Akbağ was born in Denizli as the third child of Benan and Oktay İybar. Her maternal family is of Turkmen descent. Her paternal family is of Kurdish descent. Her father's religion is Alevism. His family was in Denizli at the time because of the duty of his grandfather as the head of justice department in the city. Her father was a journalist and photographer. She has two elder siblings, Sedef and Kemal. As her parents separated when she was 13, she and her mother and grandmother moved to Istanbul in 1972.

She later enrolled in the Istanbul Girls High School, and as her parents got separated she started attending the Erenköy Girls High School and finished her education there. After finishing high school in 1982, she entered Istanbul Municipal Conservatory and completed school in four years. Her first marriage, when she was 21, lasted four years. She started her professional career first in theatre in the early 1980s and then in television from 1987 onwards. That same year, she was chosen as the TV Star of The Year by Turkey's Association of Magazine Reporters.

Akbağ has been awarded with numerous prizes, including the Golden and Sadri Alisik Best Character Actor for her role in Vizontele, the Afife Jale Best Female Actor for Sen Hiç Ateşböceği Gördün mü?, the Golden Butterfly for Tersine Dünya in 1993, the Ismail Dumbullu (the first actress to get this prize after Suna Pekuysal) in 1995, the Golden Butterfly – Best Comedy Star of The Year in 1996, 1997 and 1998, and the MGD-Comedy Artist Award in both 1996 and 1997. She has also worked with the BKM Actors since their career starts and performed various leading roles in television including Bir Demet Tiyatro and Ölümsüz Aşk, in theatrical plays including Otogargara, Sen Hiç Ateşböceği Gördün mü?, and Bana Bir Şeyler Oluyor, as well as in movies including Where's Firuze?, Eyyvah Eyvah, Eyyvah Eyvah 2, and Eyyvah Eyvah 3. She played in "Kış Uykusu" which won Cannes Award, with Haluk Bilginer for many times.

Known For

  • Eyyvah Eyvah
  • Vizontele
  • Winter Sleep
  • Eyyvah Eyvah 2
  • Magic Carpet Ride
  • Hükümet Kadin
  • Vizontele Tuuba
  • Eyyvah Eyvah 3
  • Leyla Everlasting
  • O... Çocuklari
  • Hükümet Kadin 2
  • Where's Firuze?
  • Nadide Hayat
  • Locked on You
  • The Net 2.0
  • Sen Hiç Atesböcegi Gördün Mü?
  • Görevimiz Tatil
  • Niyazi Gül Dörtnala
  • Last Stop: Kurtulus
  • Bir Demet Tiyatro
  • Otogargara
  • Bana Bir Seyhler Oluyor
  • Haybeden Gerçeküstü Ask
  • I'm Glad I Did

Filmography

2023
I Am Mother (TV Series) · as Filiz Çelik
2020
Scorpion (2020) (TV Series) · as Perihan Emgen
2020
Leyla Everlasting · as Leyla
2020
I'm Glad I Did · as Kendisi
2019
Çok Güzel Hareketler 2 (TV Series) · as Demet Akbag
2018
Locked on You · as Hafize
2018
Görevimiz Tatil · as Türkan Mutlu
2016
Görümce · as Feriştah
2015
Nadide Hayat · as Nadide
2015
2014
Winter Sleep · as Necla
2014
Anali Ogullu (TV Series) · as Adalet
2014
Eyyvah Eyvah 3 · as Firuzan
2013
Sevdaluk (TV Series) · as Adalet
2013
Hükümet Kadin 2 · as Xate Veysel
2013
Firildak Family (TV Series) · as Yıldız Fırıldak
2013
Hükümet Kadin · as Xate Nuroğlu
2012
Last Stop: Kurtulus · as Vartanuş
2011
İstanbul'un Altınları (TV Series) · as İsmet Azmarazlı
2011
Eyyvah Eyvah 2 · as Firuzan
2010
Eyyvah Eyvah · as Firuzan
2008
Sen Harikasin (TV Series) · as Harika
2008
O... Çocuklari · as Mehtap Anne
2007
Farewell Rumelia (TV Series) · as Hüsniye
2007
2006
The Net 2.0 · as Dr. Kavak
2005
Magic Carpet Ride · as Nuran Ocak
2005
1st Annual Primetime Beyaz Inci Awards · as Nominee: Best Actress - Comedy
2004
Where's Firuze? · as Firuze
2003
Vizontele Tuuba · as Siti Ana
2003
2003
Immortal Love (TV Series)
2001
Vizontele · as Siti Ana
1999
1995
1995
Bir Demet Tiyatro (TV Series)
1994
A World Upside Down · as Bitirim Leyla
1988
1987
Homoti · as Zeynep Erez
1987
1987
Plaintiff · as Dursun'un Karısı
1986
Perihan Abla (TV Series) · as Yarismaci

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