Demet Akbağ
Akbağ in March 2012
Born
Demet İybar

(1959-12-23) 23 December 1959
Denizli, Turkey
NationalityTurkish
OccupationActress
Years active1983–present
Spouses
İskender Akbağ
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(m. 1981; div. 1984)​
    Saim Arpat
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    (m. 1986; div. 1986)​
      Zafer Çika
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      (m. 1999; died 2019)​
      Children1

      Demet Akbağ (née İybar; born 23 December 1959) is a Turkish theatre and film actress.

      Biography

      Demet Akbağ was born on 23 December 1959 in Denizli as the third child of Benan and Oktay İybar.[1] His family was in Denizli at the time because of the duty of his grandfather as the head of justice department in the city.[2] Her father was a journalist and photographer.[3] 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.[2] After finishing high school in 1982, she entered Istanbul Municipal Conservatory and completed school in four years.[3] Her first marriage, when she was 21, lasted four years.[3]

      Career

      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.

      Between 1995-2007, she played many roles in programming "Bir Demet Tiyatro". Also, she joined cast of hit series "Perihan Abla", "Elveda Rumeli".[4]

      Akbağ has been awarded with numerous prizes, including the Golden and Sadri Alışık Best Character Actor for her role in franchise film 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 Neredesin Firuze, franchise film series Eyyvah Eyvah and Hükümet Kadın. She played in "Kış Uykusu" which won Cannes Award, with Haluk Bilginer for many times.[5]

      Filmography

      Film
      Year Title Role Notes
      1986 Davacı Dursun's wife
      1987 Homoti Zeynep Erez
      1993 Tersine Dünya Bitirim Leyla
      2000 Vizontele Sıti Ana
      2004 Neredesin Firuze Firuze
      2003 Vizontele Tuuba Sıti Ana
      2005 Organize İşler Nuran Ocak
      2005 The Net 2.0 Dr. Kavak
      2008 O... Çocukları Mehtap Anne
      2010 Eyyvah Eyvah Firuzan
      2011 Eyyvah Eyvah 2 Firuzan
      2011 Kurtuluş Son Durak Vartanuş
      2012 Hükümet Kadın Xate
      2013 Hükümet Kadın 2 Xate
      2014 Eyyvah Eyvah 3 Firuzan
      2014 Kış Uykusu Necla
      2015 Niyazi Gül Dörtnala Sultan Şahmerdan
      2015 Nadide Hayat Nadide
      2016 Görümce Falcı Feriştah
      2018 Görevimiz Tatil Türkan Mutlu
      2020 9 Kere Leyla Leyla
      TV series
      Year Title Role Notes
      1986 Perihan Abla Nesrin
      1991 Varsayalım İsmail Zarife
      2003 Ölümsüz Aşk Suna
      2004 Sevinçli Haller Evinç
      2007–2008 Elveda Rumeli Hüsniye
      2008–2011 Sen Harikasın Harika
      2011 İstanbul'un Altınları İsmet Azmarazlı
      2013 Fırıldak Ailesi Yıldız Fırıldak animation
      2013 Sevdaluk Adalet
      2020 Menajerimi Ara Herself Star TV
      2020–2021 Akrep Perihan Emgen
      2023– Sandık Kokusu Filiz Show TV
      Programming
      Year Title Role Notes
      1995 Bir Demet Tiyatro Lütfiye Çıtır Fıdıllıoğlu, Züleyha, Feriştah
      1995 Bir Demet Kahkaha Demet
      2000 Bir Demet Yerli Film Herself
      2001 Şen Kahkahalar
      2006 Bir Demet Tiyatro Lütfiye Çıtır, Feriştah, Orkide, Züleyha
      2016–2018 Demet Akbağ ile Çok Aramızda Presenter Show TV
      2019 Çok Güzel Hareketler 2 Lütfiye Çıtır / Feriştah (guest) Kanal D

      References

      1. ↑ 1961'in en güzel üçüncü çocuğu...
      2. 1 2 Emel Armutçu, Bir Demet Doğallık:Demet Akbağ, Hürriyet newspaper, 12.09.2004
      3. 1 2 3 Ayşe Aydın, Demet Akbağ’ın merak edilenleri, Vatan Newspaper, 28.02.2010
      4. ↑ https://www.haberturk.com/demet-akbag-kimdir-demet-akbag-kac-yasinda-demet-akbag-filmleri-ve-dizileri-2900301
      5. ↑ "Altın Palmiye, Nuri Bilge Ceylan'ın 'Kış Uykusu'na". 24 May 2014.


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