Aslı İnandık (born 3 October 1989) is a Turkish actress and writer.

Life and career

İnandık was born on 3 October 1989 in

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. After finishing her primary and secondary education, she studied music at the Ankara Fine Arts High School and later continued her studies at

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. She then studied acting at

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. While continuing her acting education, she started posting videos of herself

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and

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and later on

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. She started her TV career in 2014 with a small role in the final episode of ''

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'', after

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saw these videos and offered the role to her. She played numerous roles in theatrical sketches ''Güldür Güldür'' in 2017. She continued her TV appearances with her role as Feraye in ''Yıldızlar Şahidim'' and as Saniye Doğan in ''Benim Tatlı Yalanım''. İnandık made her cinematic debut with the movie ''Şevkat Yerimdar 2'' in 2015, in which she played the character of Buket. In 2018, she appeared on stage in the play ''Köleler Adası''. At this point, she stated that she wanted to write a script about the characters she had previously created and portrayed on social media and shoot a movie based on that. In 2019, she fulfilled this wish and played her first leading role by playing the character of Aslı in the movie ''Aslı Gibidir'', in which she portrayed eight different characters. It was the first time in

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's history that an actor played eight different characters in a movie. In the same year, for her role as Aslı in the movie ''Soluk'', she won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 56th

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Theatre

Filmography

Television

Film

Reception

The characters created and the comments made by İnandık and shared by her on social media have been among the subjects covered by columnists. In his column in the ''

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'' newspaper, Onur Baştürk described the characters of Ms. Salkım, meditation teacher and housewife as "awesome" and "ideal for laughing." Melike Karakartal wrote that İnandık is "one of the most talented and funny actors in recent years." In another article, she stated that watching İnandık made her "laugh until tears came to her eyes" and that she was "very talented", adding "I haven't met anyone in a long time who can turn into the person she is imitating." She described İnandık's role in the play ''Waterproof'' as "a very surprising performance with a very different character."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:İnandık, Aslı 1989 births 21st-century Turkish actresses Actresses from Ankara Best Supporting Actress Golden Orange Award winners Gazi University alumni Living people Turkish film actresses Turkish stage actresses Turkish television actresses 20th-century Turkish actresses