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Füsun Demirel
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Füsun Demirel

Actor · 68 years old

Appearing in the series Zeytin Ağacı

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Age68 years old
Birth dateJune 13, 1958
BirthplaceAnkara
ProfessionActor, Translator
Zodiac signGemini

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Füsun Demirel — Biography

Actress and translator Füsun Demirel, a Turkish performer, was born in Ankara on 13 June 1958. She spent her student years in Italy, studying language at the University for Foreigners of Perugia and theatre at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome, and made her stage debut in 1980 in Vasıf Öngören's Zengin Mutfağı with the Berlin Kollektiv Theatre.

Returning to Turkey in 1982, she married fellow theatre actor Nurettin Şen and worked with the Dostlar, Devekuşu and Dormen theatre companies. She moved into film in 1984 and went on to appear in films such as Züğürt Ağa, Uçurtmayı Vurmasınlar and Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk, and in series such as Sıdıka.

Fluent in Italian, English and German, Demirel has translated 27 plays by Dario Fo and Franca Rame into Turkish and headed the actors' union ÇASOD in 1996; she is an aunt of journalist Aslı Aydıntaşbaş. Over her career she has repeatedly won best supporting actress prizes at festivals including Altın Koza, Altın Portakal and the Sadri Alışık Awards, and received an honorary award at the Frankfurt Turkish Film Festival in 2020.

In recent years she has played Gülçiçek Hanım in the series Bahar and continued a role in Zeytin Ağacı into its third season, and in 2026 she publicly called for Turkish-Kurdish reconciliation.

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Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Asiye Nasıl kurtulur?, Berdel, Eğreti Gelin, Dul Bir Kadın, Aaahh Belinda: working with Atıf Yılmaz is a defining collaboration in Füsun Demirel's filmography. The ironic, musical language of Vasıf Öngören's play in Asiye gives her ground close to her stage background. In my view her strength in supporting parts is fitting a theatre-trained performance into cinema without excess.

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Anne in Acı Tatlı Ekşi and Görülmüştür, Gülçiçek Hanım in Bahar: the mother and older-woman type recurs in Füsun Demirel's recent work. It is useful for describing family and generations in contemporary comedy and drama, but in my view it is less varied than the more specifically named women of the Atıf Yılmaz films of the 1980s.

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