Demet Akbağ

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

Demet Akbağ
Akbağ in March 2012
Born	Demet İybar 23 December 1959 Denizli, Turkey
Nationality	Turkish
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1983–present
Spouse(s)	İskender Akbağ ​ ​ (m. 1981; div. 1984)​ Saim Arpat ​ ​ (m. 1986; div. 1986)​ Zafer Çika ​ ​ (m. 1999; died 2019)​
Children	1

Biography

Demet Akbağ was born on 23 December 1959 in Denizli as the third child of Benan and Oktay İybar.[1] Her maternal family is of Turkmen descent. Her paternal family is of Kurdish descent. Her father's religion is Alevism.[2] His family was in Denizli at the time because of the duty of his grandfather as the head of justice department in the city.[3] Her father was a journalist and photographer.[4] 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.[3] After finishing high school in 1982, she entered Istanbul Municipal Conservatory and completed school in four years.[4] Her first marriage, when she was 21, lasted four years.[4] 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.[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	Leyla Everlasting	Leyla
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Perihan Abla	Nesrin
1991	Varsayalım İsmail	Zarife
1995	Bir Demet Tiyatro	Lütfiye Çıtır Fıdıllıoğlu, Züleyha, Feriştah
1995	Bir Demet Kahkaha	Demet
2000	Bir Demet Yerli Film	Herself
2001	Şen Kahkahalar
2003	Ölümsüz Aşk	Suna
2004	Sevinçli Haller	Evinç
2006	Bir Demet Tiyatro	Lütfiye Çıtır, Feriştah, Orkide, Züleyha
2007–2008	Elveda Rumeli	Hüsniye
2008–2011	Sen Harikasın	Harika
2011	İstanbul'un Altınları	İsmet Azmarazlı
2013	Fırıldak Ailesi	Seslendirme
2013	Sevdaluk	Adalet
2016–2018	Demet Akbağ ile Çok Aramızda	Presenter	Show TV
2019	Çok Güzel Hareketler 2	Lütfiye Çıtır / Feriştah (guest)	Kanal D
2020	Menajerimi Ara	Herself	Star TV
2020–	Akrep	Perihan	Star TV

References

1. 1961'in en güzel üçüncü çocuğu...
2. https://www.sabah.com.tr/pazar/roportaj/2009/10/18/ben_hormonsuz_olmayi_seviyorum
3. Emel Armutçu, Bir Demet Doğallık:Demet Akbağ, Hürriyet newspaper, 12.09.2004
4. Ayşe Aydın, Demet Akbağ’ın merak edilenleri, Vatan Newspaper, 28.02.2010
5. https://www.bbc.com/turkce/haberler/2014/05/140524_altin_palmiye_ceylan

External links

• Demet Akbağ at IMDb
• Biyografi.net - Biography of Demet Akbağ (in Turkish)
• Biyografi.info Demet Akbağ