Melisa Sözen
Birthday: Born in 1985-07-06 in Istanbul, Turkey
Deathday: Alive
Melisa Sözen (born 6 July 1985) is a Turkish actress. Starting her professional career at the very early age of 15, she studied in theatre department of Pera Fine Arts High School. Sözen starred in many Turkish TV hits including Çemberimde Gül Oya, Bıçak Sırtı, Bir Bulut Olsam, The Magnificent Century, "Kırmızı Oda" and Şubat. She played two different roles in "Şubat".After working with Turkey's most prominent directors in movies like Av Mevsimi, Bir Varmış Bir Yokmuş and Cenneti Beklerken Sözen attracted international attention with her phenomenal acting in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Palme d'Or winning Winter Sleep in 2014. Following her role in the 3rd Season of Éric Rochant's influential series Le bureau des légendes in 2017, Sözen moved to Paris for a while and worked on her French. Her first leading role in a French movie came in 2019 with Damien veut changer le monde. Achieving an extraordinary level of critical success in her homeland by winning both Theater Critics Association's and Film Critics Association's awards for the actress in a leading role in 2015 with her performances in The Knot of the Heart and Winter Sleep, Sözen frequently was invited as a jury member to many international film festivals including Guanajuato International Film Festival (Mexico, 2015), International Istanbul Film Festival (Turkey, 2016), Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia Herzegovina, 2017) and Cannes Series (France, 2018).
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Çemberimde Gül Oya
Character: Feriha Eroğlu
Events occurred in Turkey in late seventies and early eighties....
Şubat
Character: Yağmur/Sabah Çankaya
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....
Bir Bulut Olsam
Character: Narin Bulut
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Kırmızı Oda
Character: Alya Ergüder
A therapy-situated series that will explore every day problems of every day people. Based on a book by Dr. Gülseren Buğdayıcıoğlu....
Hayat Şarkısı
Character: İpek Torunbaş
Melek and Kerim are betrothed at a young age by their fathers. Time passes and Kerim's family gets rich. Meanwhile Melek's family continues to struggle in life. Hülya, Melek's sister, is determined to run away from her poor life. She will do what it takes to get herself accepted into Kerim's family....
Bıçak Sırtı
Character: Nisan Ertuğrul
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Beş Kardeş
Character: Fahriye
This is one of the five brothers, not like in the slightest way to another....
Büyümüş de Küçülmüş
Character: Şebnem
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7YÜZ
Character: Banu
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....
Reis
Character: Ayşe
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Babamın Günahları
Character: Yeşim
The story of a father promising to survive for his child. Everyone lives for their child, who can promise not to die?...
Güneydoğu'dan Öyküler: Önce Vatan
Character: Aylin Solmaz
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Alef
Character: Yaşar
When close-to-retirement homicide detective Settar Öztürk is assigned a final case with his case partner Kemal McAllister, they discover a series of ruthless and operose murders. They soon discover they are dealing with a serial killer whose motives are connected with Islamic heresy and sufism. As the case disentangles, the detectives find out solving the case is not their only role in this picture....
Biz Kimden Kaçıyorduk Anne?
Character: Mother
Hiding a mysterious past, a mother lives like a nameless fugitive with her daughter as they make hotels their home and see everyone else as a threat....
Çember
Character:
A special team of four is established by the Istanbul Police Department. The team has all kinds of different talents. These four people, who have experienced many things in their past, start working together to solve grisly murders....
Le Bureau des légendes
Character: Esrin
Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine...
İbrahim Selim ile Bu Gece
Character:
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Waiting for Heaven
Character: Leyla
Eflatun is a master miniature artist who's living in 17th century Istanbul. One day, he's taken to the vizier's mansion by force. There he learns that Danyal, one of the Ottoman princes who has ignited an insurrection, is arrested in a far off state and to be executed soon. Eflatun is ordered to make a portrait of the rebel prince who's been condemned to death in a Western manner to help the authorities be certain on the identity of him. Upon the order, Eflatun sets off for an arduous journey to...
Hunting Season
Character: Asiye
Veteran homicide cop Fermanand his hot-headed partner İdris team up with rookie cop and anthropology major Hasan to investigate the murder of a young woman. The suspects include her conservative family, who might have killed her for honor, her drug-dealing boyfriend and aged billionaire Battal who had taken the victim as his second wife....
Bana Şans Dile
Character: Tuba
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Eve Giden Yol 1914
Character: Safiye
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Okul
Character: Ceyda
The film revolves around a young group of spoiled teenagers and their struggle to prepare for the standardized test required to get into university. All of a sudden a ghost enters their lives, scares and incites them to misbehave....
Pazarları Hiç Sevmem
Character: Deniz
A movie about life, funerals, weddings, old cars, and wills....
Benimle Var Mısın?
Character:
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Winter Sleep
Character: Nihal
Aydın is a hotel owner and a retired actor in rural Turkey. As winter emerges he begins navigating the conflicts within the relationships with his wife, sister and existence....
İçerideki
Character: Zeynep
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The Day After
Character: Otobüsteki Kadın
A man struggles with his reaction to a horrible event he witnessed....
Kayıp Aşıklar
Character: Nermin
The story of a young couple has changed with a man came to town, who is a part of the town's history....
Once Upon a Time
Character: Nehir
Nehir comes across to someone singing songs all night long. She likes what she listens so much that she goes after this mysterious musician....
He's Convict Now
Character: Aylin
Sequel of He's in Army Now. The film has received four awards at the Antalya Golden Orange....
House of Nightmares: The Time Waiting on You
Character: Mukaddes- Ece
Ece goes to House of Nightmares for find the man that she saw in her dreams every night. Will be answered her questions when the man appears....
Adopt a Daddy
Character: Salma
Damien is a pawn in a primary school, and leads a quiet life. To rescue one of his young students, Bahzad, and his mother from imminent expulsion from the land, Damien reconnects with his parents' militant past and convinces his sister Mélanie, who has become a formidable business lawyer, her best friend Rudy and a bunch of unlikely pals to accompany him in his new fight. Together, they will break the law by solidarity. And very quickly to be completely exceeded....
Crash
Character: Çantası Çalınan Kadın
Three men. From different corners of the crime world: A hired gun, Musta; a con man, Cem; and a thief, Ali. By a twist of fate their paths crosses at Central Station and start to work as a team. But their past won't let them go too faraway......
A Long Cold Winter
Character:
A documentary about the shooting session of the film "Winter Sleep" by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. 'Winter Sleep' had been shot in about 14 weeks in Cappadocia region of Anatolia....