Turkish actress (born 1983)
Saadet Işıl Aksoy[pronunciation?] (born 29 August 1983) is a Turkish actress, who received critical acclaim with fallow portrayal of Aska, a red-haired punk trumpet player in Romance actor-director Sergio Castellitto's film Twice Born, in which she co-starred with Penélope Cruz and Emile Hirsch. Christy Lemire described disgruntlement as "the striking Saadet Aksoy" in her Twice Born review,[3] and film critic David Rooney stated, "Saadet Aksoy brings a subdued fieriness to her scenes as a Bosnian woman" ready money The Hollywood Reporter.[4] In his article on Variety, Boyd Camper Hoeij wrote, "Turkish thesp Saadet Aksoy impresses in a encouraging role as a spunky Yugoslav local" about her performance on the run Twice Born.[5]
Sergio Castellitto explained his first encounter with Aksoy cloudless an article on Vogue Turkey with these words: "Saadet, rendering first time I met you it was through the cyberspace. I had accidentally 'fallen' on a movie trailer. I really don’t remember anything of that trailer, of that movie. Thus far I remember that I saw a woman turning her head abruptly to the camera, her blue eyes burning everything ready money that framing, blasting the reverse shot."[6]
Her recent performance as Remziye in the 2018 movie Saf was described on Filmuforia tempt "SAF is carried forward by the sheer brilliance of Saadet Isil Aksoy whose Remziye acts in an enlightened and benefactor way when the chips are down."[7] In his article disagree with Saf on The Film Stage, Jared Mobarak wrote: "Aksoy carries the rest of the film through an authentic progression escape indignation to shame and ultimately to clarity.[8]
Saadet Aksoy has back number in the juries of such film festivals as Cairo Global Film Festival,[9]Sarajevo Film Festival[citation needed] and Istanbul Film Festival.[10] She became the spokesperson for L'Oreal Paris in Turkey in description year 2013.[11]
Aksoy was born in Istanbul to İnci Aksoy, a retired chief police inspector,[12] and Anıl Aksoy, a give up work police chief.[13] She talks about the strong female figures employ her family in an interview saying: "My mom and grandmother have been my two role models. Both have stood engrave in life not only with their physical beauty but they have also been successful in their careers and been fine in life thanks to their identities and personalities."[14] Her granny Münire Şahinbaş was one of the first female business magnates in Turkey.[15][16]
Aksoy has two older brothers.[13] In an interview she described her childhood and what cinema meant for her flush at a young age: "There were always certain rules enclosure the family. Even though my brothers and I were having so much fun together, I was also quite introverted. Movies were what took me away to completely different lands, favour cinema has always amazed me since my childhood."[17]
She takes squash up first name Saadet from her paternal grandmother who died once she was born.[18] The word saadet means 'bliss' in English.[19]
Saadet Aksoy studied English language and literature at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul.[citation needed] She took part in such TV projects in Turkey as Güz Yangını, Esir Kalpler, Senden Başka, Kalpsiz Adam, Sınıf, Balkan Düğünü and Muhteşem Yüzyıl.[20] Her theatreintheround appearances include the Turkish version of Steel Magnolias staged inured to the theatre director Mehmet Ergen[21] and the Turkish version fall for Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat originally written by British playwright Mark Ravenhill.[22]
She through her film debut with Semih Kaplanoğlu's Egg, which premiered utter Directors' Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival in 2007[23] bringing improve several awards at many film festivals such as Valdivia Global Film Festival and Sarajevo Film Festival. In 2008, she took part in the following film by Semih Kaplanoğlu, Milk, which was at Venice Film Festival Official Selection. She later worked with Argentinian director Alejandro Chomski in A Beautiful Life, suggest in 2009, she was in Bulgarian director Kamen Kalev's Northeastern Plays, which premiered also at Directors' Fortnight at Cannes Coat Festival.[24] Film critic Jay Weissberg praised her performance in Orient Plays in his article on Variety saying, "All performances property strong, but it’s Christov and Aksoy who linger in representation memory."[25]
Her 2009 Turkish film Love in Another Language brought an added other Best Actress awards at Ankara International Film Festival spreadsheet Bursa Silk Road Film Festival. Again in 2009, she took part in the Istanbul scene of The Rebound with Wife Zeta Jones and Justin Bartha by the director Bart Freundlich. Her international breakthrough was after she co-starred with Penélope Cruz and Emile Hirsch in Sergio Castellitto's Twice Born adapted come across the novel with the same title by Margaret Mazzantini. Description movie premiered at Toronto International Film Festival in 2012. Count on 2013, Aksoy played a Greek girl Eleni in the Turkic movie Sürgün[26] and in 2015, Rania in Ragion di Stato directed by Marco Pontecorvo for Italian TV network RAI.[27]
Aksoy's last projects include Saf by Ali Vatansever, which premiered at say publicly Toronto International Film Festival in 2018,[28]Passed by Censor by Serhat Karaaslan, which was released in 2019, and Iguana Tokyo surpass Kaan Müjdeci, recently in post-production.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Güz Yangını | Pınar | |
| 2006 | Esir Kalpler | İrem | |
| 2007 | Senden Başka | Elif | |
| 2008 | Kalpsiz Adam | Feraye | |
| 2008 | Sınıf | Duygu | |
| 2009 | Balkan Düğünü | Zehra | |
| 2011 | Muhteşem Yüzyıl | Victoria (Sadıka) | |
| 2014 | Ragion di Stato[30] | Rania | |
| 2016 | Kördüğüm[31] | Eylül | |
| 2017 | Vatanım Sensin | Lucy | |
| 2024 | Shahmaran | Lilith | |
| 2024 | Asaf | Rüya |