Damla Sönmez
Birthday: Born in 1987-05-03 in Istanbul, Turkey
Deathday: Alive
Damla Sonmez was born in Istanbul, Turkey. Her native language is Turkish and is fluent in English and French. Cinema has been her greatest passion since she was child. She is an award-winning actor of international distinction. She received several nominations for her performance in Bornova Bornova (2009) , winning the Antalya Golden Orange Award, Ankara Flying Broom Women's Film Festival Award and a Sadri Alisik Theatre & Movie Award. She was also nominated for The Young Talent Award at the Yesilcam Movie Awards for her performance in Mahpeyker - Kösem Sultan (2010) As a young actress, Sonmez trained in cities throughout Europe. After graduating from Saint Joseph French High School in Istanbul, she was accepted to Université de La Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III Theatre department. She studied for a year in Paris before being awarded a scholarship to the Yeditepe University Fine Arts Theatre Department in Istanbul. She also attended Jillian O'Dowd's Contemporary Acting Workshop at the London Dramatic School of Arts.. Sonmez made her film debut in Kampüste çiplak ayaklar (2009) , which was quickly followed up with her award-winning performance in Bornova Bornova (2009) in which she played a confused, yet ruthless Lady M-inspired girl from Izmir. She played a young conservative worker in _Çakal(2010)_ and was nominated for her work as an Ottoman Empire Sultan in Mahpeyker - Kösem Sultan (2010). Sonmez next played an abused girl who takes matters into her own hands in the comedy Kurtulus Son Durak(2012) She continued her work in film in Uzun Hikaye (2012) as an attorney's daughter who meets the love of her life, followed by Sen Aydinlatirsin Geceyi (2013) playing a young town girl who has the ability to stop time.
TV Credits
Güllerin Savaşı
Character: Gülru Çelik / Gülru Sipahi
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Gece Gündüz
Character: Pınar
Gece Gündüz was a police procedural soap produced by the Altıoklar Productions, the main characters are Aslan Aydemir and Kemal. They both work at the Istanbul Organized Crime section of the police force. The series finished on its 33rd episode. The theme song is an edited version of "Gündüz Gece" by Âşık Veysel Şatıroğlu who is also named "Uzun Ince bir Yoldayım" which was a famous Turkish folk music and Veysel was the famous one for this song....
Şubat
Character: Gelin
An orphan subjected to tests that gave him superpowers is rescued and raised on Istanbul's streets, where he falls for a reporter linked to his past....
Saygı
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The protagonist of the story, Ercüment Çözer rebels against disrespect and rudeness that we tend to avoid, ignore and eventually forget. Ercüment Çözer is a sociopath obsessed with the idea of respect. However, this time, he is not alone on his obsessive journey. The young lovers Helen and Savas, who have just stepped foot into the real world, find themselves in the middle of difficult situations after being mistreated by a group of people and end up being responsible for a chain of murders that...
Maviye Sürgün
Character: Defne Boz
Oğuz has losaves a young amnesiac woman, Defne, who he brings into his home. But when Defne recovers her memory, she realizes that she was a con artist who must remain in hiding....
Aziz
Character: Dilruba Paşazadeoğlu
Aziz Payidar, the son of the Payidar family, the largest and only carpet manufacturer in Antakya, leads a prosperous and wealthy life. Aziz's fate changes when he kills the French delegate Monsieur Pierre's son, Lieutenant Andre. He is forced to leave behind the land of his birth, his only love, in short, everything he has. Two years later, when he is thought to be dead, his return is unexpected for everyone. Nothing is the same anymore. Not only did Aziz lose everything he owned, but Antakya, w...
Masum Değiliz
Character: Selin
Three close friends who have not left since high school; Mert, Emir and Volkan. On the day of Mert's engagement, they are confronted with a great event, including Mert's fiance's brother, Umut. And this event will change the life of all of them. After that day, there is a secret that every one has to keep, they have to protect. But this secret is so big that its carrying will be heavy in those young bodies....
Emret Komutanım
Character: Karamel
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7YÜZ
Character: Pınar
Featuring seven different yet intertwined stories of modern life in Istanbul, 7 Faces is a thought-provoking drama centering on seven characters living in the same city apartment building. Each of them faces a major change in their lives, which requires them to confront their biggest fear or weakness....
Bir Aşk Hikayesi
Character: Ceylan German
Korkut Ali is a young and handsome guy who has a poor life in Germany. He was abandoned by his parents as a child and was adopted by a couple in Germany. However, he was left alone by his foster family. Ceylan, on the other hand, is a beautiful and naive young girl who lives in Istanbul, Turkey. She is a fashion designer of a famous singer, Tolga whom she is in love with. At a wedding ceremony, Korkut is shot in the head. The doctor saves him but Korkut has to live a bullet in his head with less...
Türkan
Character: Turhan
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Aşk ve Gurur
Character: Zeynep Esen
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Sahte Prenses
Character: Sedef
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Kötü Kan
Character: Nazan
Kartal, a former police officer, gets into trouble with a dangerous mafia group while working as the security manager of a nightclub. When he is forced to move closer to his children after years of being away, Kartal navigates the challenges of escaping the mafia’s grip while also trying to be a father to his children. Soon enough, the paths of Kartal, the ex-cop turned nightclub owner with two children, and Nazan, the mafia leader’s daughter waiting for her fiancé to be released from prison, cr...
Çukur
Character: Efsun
When a mafia family named Koçovars are in danger of losing control of their neighborhood, “The Pit,” their youngest son must come back home, a place he could never truly escape....
Rise of Empires: Ottoman
Character: Ana
Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II wages an epic campaign to take the Byzantine capital of Constantinople and shapes the course of history for centuries....
Çırak
Character: Hacker
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Movie Credits
Çakal
Character:
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The Second Night
Character:
Veysel's mind is struck with a question. "What would be his one wish if a genie appeared?". He thinks for a while. When he makes up his mind, he visits Leyla to ask her permission before making his wish....
Last Stop: Kurtuluş
Character: Tülay
Meet Vartanus who has devoted her life to her bedridden father; Goncagul who realizes that her Mafioso lover will never marry her. Gulnur who's resigned herself to daily beatings as long as her husband doesn't touch the kids, Tulay who's shattered every time her mother gets beaten; hairdresser Fusun who tends to see things on the bright side. These are the women who transport Eylem, each other and perhaps every woman in the country to Last Stop: Kurtulus. The heroines adopt one unwavering princi...
Thou Gild'st the Even
Character: Defne
In a small town in Anatolia, whose inhabitants possess various supernatural powers but still have to deal with ordinary problems, Cemal helps out in his father’s barbershop and, in his free time, acts as a football referee....
Mahpeyker: Kösem Sultan
Character: Emine/Kösem Sultan
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Kampüste Çıplak Ayaklar
Character: Ebru
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Across the Sea
Character: Damla
Damla reluctantly returns to her Turkish summer town with her American husband. Her bitter past is soon to be unveiled....
A Long Story
Character: Ayla
A long story that started and ended at the station....
The Contact
Character: Merve
Ali returns to the town he left many years ago after the death of his son İsa, and when he returns, he finds nothing. He comes face to face with the belongings left behind by the son he does not know. A wallet, a photo and his son's pocket phone. Ali tries to get to know his son by talking to people registered in his mobile phone's contact list....
Tezgah
Character: Oyuncu
The film is about the events that occur when one of the country's famous names catches his wife cheating on him with his best friend at the kitchen counter....
Ayla: The Daughter of War
Character: Nuran
In 1950, amidst the ravages of the Korean War, Sergeant Süleyman stumbles upon a a half-frozen little girl, with no parents and no help in sight and he risks his own life to save her, smuggling her into his army base and out of harm’s way....
Taksim Hold'em
Character: Defne
On a Saturday night in Istanbul, despite the pleas of his fiancée, cynical Alper refuses to join the anti-government protests happening on his doorstep. He just wants to stay home for his weekly dose of poker, played with his regular crew of high-school friends. Alper's game is threatened as his friends set off on a series of passionate, and at times ill-thought-out, squabbles on whether they should join the demonstrations or not....
Sibel
Character: Sibel
25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area....
I Am You
Character: Aisha
The story of Masoud, who is trying to emigrate to Europe to make a better life for himself, his mother and his fiancé. After embarking on a difficult and dangerous immigration journey with his best friend, Masoud meets a pregnant doctor and an old man on the way and they band together. Having to flee because of war and terror, Masoud tries to reach his goal with a hopeful but painful journey....
The Cut
Character:
Mrs. Reyhan makes preparations for the reporter woman who wants to interview with her. Reporter women wants to search for the incidents Mrs. Reyhan went through in the past. Mrs. Reyhan goes to kitchen to bring something to drink for the reporter....
Bornova Bornova
Character: Özlem
A story from Bornova, a neighborhood in Izmir. Two good friends Salih and Hakan spend their days in front of a grocery store waiting for a chance to do something with their lives....
Right Where I Left You
Character: Nihan
Right Where I Left You tells the story of a woman’s long and difficult journey after her brother’s suicide. Nihan sets off with her brother, her brother-in-law and her brother’s coworker to their village where the funeral will take place. While trying to hide the fact that her brother’s death was not suicide from the village imam, Nihan also confronts her brother-in-law Salim. On this journey, Nihan must confront the contradictions between her own view of life and the norms imposed by religion ...
Strange, Abandoned, Deranged
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Turkey's first “eco” hotel, Naturland Eco Park and Resort, opened in 1991 and operated until 2014. A hybrid of documentary, black satirical comedy and circus-style performance, the film builds on fictional voice-overs that depict the experiences of hotel guests and staff and the gradual decay of the once-pompous and now dilapidated abandoned complex, which was closed due to overwhelming debts and left virtually untouched....