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

(1959-12-23) 23 December 1959
Denizli, Turkey
NationalityTurkish
OccupationActress
Years active1983–present
Spouse(s)
İskender Akbağ
​
(
m. 1981; div. 1984)

Saim Arpat
​
(
m. 1986; div. 1986)

Zafer Çika
​
(
m. 1999; died 2019)
Children1

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] 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 Seyhler Oluyor, as well as in movies including Where's Firuze?, Eyyvah Eyvah, Eyyvah Eyvah 2, and Eyyvah Eyvah 3.

Selected filmography
Year Title Role Notes
2001 Vizontele Sıti Ana
2004 Vizontele Tuuba Sıti Ana
Where's Firuze? Firuze
2005 Magic Carpet Ride Nuran Olcak
2008 O... Çocuklari Mehtap Anne
2010 Eyyvah Eyvah Firuzan
2011 Eyyvah Eyvah 2 Firuzan
2013 Hükümet Kadın Xate
2014 Eyyvah Eyvah 3 Firuzan
2014 Winter Sleep Necla
2014 Hükümet Kadın 2 Xate
gollark: Finally at home.
gollark: This place doesn't even have a chair.
gollark: I have been stuck in the public transport system for three hours and have English homework which will take ages, how wonderful.
gollark: We must reduce to 0.9 recurring channels.
gollark: Hahahahano.

References
  1. 1961'in en güzel üçüncü çocuğu...
  2. Emel Armutçu, Bir Demet Doğallık:Demet Akbağ, Hürriyet newspaper, 12.09.2004
  3. Ayşe Aydın, Demet Akbağ’ın merak edilenleri, Vatan Newspaper, 28.02.2010
Awards
Preceded by
Serap Aksoy		 Golden Orange Award for
Best Supporting Actress
1993
for Tersine Dünya 		Succeeded by
Derya Alabora
Preceded by
Sanem Çelik		 Golden Orange Award for
Best Actress
2001
for Vizontele
shared with Yeşim Salkım for Şarkıcı		 Succeeded by
Meral Oğuz


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