Demet Akbağ
Date of birth: 1959-12-23
Place of birth: Denizli, Turkey
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Demet İybar, Demet Akbağ, Demet Akbag
Biography
Demet Akbağ (born 23 December 1959) is a Turkish theatre and film actress. Demet Akbağ was born in Denizli as the third child of Benan and Oktay İybar. Her maternal family is of Turkmen descent. Her paternal family is of Kurdish descent. Her father's religion is Alevism. His family was in Denizli at the time because of the duty of his grandfather as the head of justice department in the city. Her father was a journalist and photographer. 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. After finishing high school in 1982, she entered Istanbul Municipal Conservatory and completed school in four years. Her first marriage, when she was 21, lasted four years. 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.
Movie Credits
Magic Carpet Ride
2005-12-22
A struggling, suicidal young comedian meets a car thief who is willing to teach him a few things abo
The Net 2.0
2006-02-15
The life of a young computer systems analyst is thrown into turmoil after arriving in Istanbul to st
O... Çocukları
2008-05-16
After the coup d'état on September 12, 1980, a husband and wife wanted for political crimes decide t
Surreal Love From the Wasteland
2007-01-01
A male (Yilmaz Erdogan) and female (Demet Akbag) meets at desolate balcony during a party. After a l
Eyyvah Eyvah
2010-02-26
Hüseyin is a young man who lives with his grandfather and grandmother in a village in Thracian Turke
Eyyvah Eyvah 2
2011-01-07
A clarinetist from a village in Turkey's Thracian region tries to reach his fiancé, who works as a n
Bana Bir Şeyhler Oluyor
2003-12-05
“Anlatacaklarım var! Vaaz vermek değil niyetim, duyduğumu söylemek. Söylemeye değer şeyler duyuyorum
Vizontele Tuuba
2004-01-23
Guner Sernikli is a government official who, with his wife and their wheelchair bound daughter, has
Vizontele
2001-02-02
The story takes place in the small town of Hakkari in Turkey at the beginning of the '70s. The time
Last Stop: Kurtuluş
2012-01-06
Meet Vartanus who has devoted her life to her bedridden father; Goncagul who realizes that her Mafio
Where's Firuze?
2004-02-20
Hayri and Orhan are two music producers head over heels in debt. In an attempt to find the next big
Government Woman
2013-02-01
Xate is an ordinary woman from Midyat with eight children in tow. The only thing that sets her apart
Government Woman 2
2013-11-07
Seven years before the first film, Xate, still living in her husband Aziz Veysel’s shadow, is about
Winter Sleep
2014-06-13
Aydın is a hotel owner and a retired actor in rural Turkey. As winter emerges he begins navigating t
Eyyvah Eyvah 3
2014-01-31
Life is tough for Geyikli clarinetist Huseyin Badem after marrying his true love, Mujgan. He must gr
Tersine Dünya
1994-01-07
Otogargara
1995-07-14
Written by Yılmaz Erdoğan and first staged at the Beşiktaş Cultural Center (BKM) in 1995, Otogargara
Artiz Mektebi
1987-01-01
A Unique Life
2015-12-18
A widowed housewife returns to college to complete her studies and embarks on a journey that gives h
Sister In Law
2016-12-01
Yeliz leads a happy life with her brother Ahmet, who she is very fond of. But Ahmet Deniz falls in l
Davacı
1986-01-01
It is a comedy of stubborn people who initiate a judicial process which would last 7 years because s
Görevimiz Tatil
2018-02-23
Sıtkı, the head of the four-member Mutlu family, is a man known for his stinginess. His wife Türkan
Niyazi Gül Dörtnala
2015-05-08
Professor Veterinarian Niyazi Gül is a somewhat unusual scientist who has always had a good relation
Locked on You
2018-11-29
A meatball seller gets into trouble so flees Istanbul to find a new life on a beautiful island.
A Long Cold Winter
2014-12-31
A documentary about the shooting session of the film "Winter Sleep" by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. 'Winter Sl
Homoti
1987-01-01
Ali is a journalist who conducts unsubstantiated interviews. While taking photographs for a story ab
Leyla Everlasting
2020-12-04
A resilient housewife, her husband and their marriage therapist become mired in a toxic love triangl
I'm Glad I Did
2020-07-28
Metin Akpınar has not been on the theater stage since 1992. In addition to TV series and movies, new
Deliler
1988-01-01
Have You Ever Seen Fireflies? - Theatre Play
1999-01-23
Yılmaz Erdoğan's lauded stage play traces the life of wunderkind Gülseren as she navigates social an