Ecem Erkek (born 24 June 1989) is a Turkish actress.
Career
Erkek was born in 1989 in
Ankara
Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...
. Her family is from
Sivas
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. After graduating from Ankara Ömer Seyfettin High School in 2006, she decided to become an actress and took drama training at Mamak Municipality Conservatory between 2007–2008 and diction training at
Hacettepe University
Hacettepe University () is a public research university in Ankara, Turkey. It was established on 8 July 1967. It is ranked first among the Turkish universities by University Ranking by Academic Performance in 2021.
The university has two main c ...
Turkish Society in 2008.
She worked as a trainee in Ankara Art Theatre in 2009, and later in 2010 she enrolled as a theatre art major in the
School of Language and History – Geography of
Ankara University
Ankara University () is a public university, public research university in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. It was the first higher education institution founded in Turkey after the History of the Republic of Turkey, formation of the Turkish republ ...
, and graduated from this school in 2015.
Starting her acting career with theatre plays, she was cast in many plays including ''
The American Dream'', ''
Woyzeck
''Woyzeck'' () is a stage play written by Georg Büchner. Büchner wrote the play between July and October 1836, yet left it incomplete at his death in February 1837. The play first appeared in 1877 in a heavily edited version by Karl Emil F ...
'', ''
The Threepenny Opera
''The Threepenny Opera'' ( ) is a 1928 German "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, '' The Beggar's Opera'', and four ballads by François V ...
'', ''Tersine Dünya'', ''
Romeo and Juliet
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'' and ''Şark Dişçisi''.
She joined the cast of the TV series ''Hayat Sırları'' in 2017.
She later got different roles in the theatre sketches ''Güldür Güldür'', which is still brought to stage in Turkey. In 2018, she appeared in two episodes of
Netflix
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original series ''
The Protector''. In 2020, she was nominated for the Best Female Comedian award at the 46th
Golden Butterfly Awards
The Golden Butterfly Awards (Turkish: ''Altın Kelebek Ödülleri'') are annual Turkish music and television awards held since 1972. Sponsored by Pantene, winners are chosen by readers of the daily newspaper ''Hürriyet'', and the event is broad ...
, but the award ceremony was not held as scheduled due to the
2020 Balyun airstrikes
On 27 February 2020, during the Dawn of Idlib 2 Operation, a joint airstrike was executed by the Russian and Syrian Air Forces against a convoy of the Turkish Army stationed in Balyun, within the Idlib Governorate. Turkish President Recep Ta ...
.
She has also recorded and released two songs, "Bu Da Gelir Bu Da Geçer" and "Nereden Bileceksiniz", with the band Taksim Trio.
Filmography
Television
Film
Web series
References
External links
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1989 births
Living people
Turkish television actresses