Ezel Akay

Turkish actor, film director and producer

(m. 2004; div. 2007)

Children1 (b. 1998)

Ezel Akay (born 20 January 1961) is a Turkish film actor, film director and film producer.

Life and work

After Ezel Akay graduated as a mechanical engineer from the Boğaziçi University, he was trained as actor at the US-American Villanova University.

Before Ezel Akay started to work in the Turkish film business and co-founded the Turkish production company IFR,^[1] he worked as copywriter, theatre director and –actor. Since the foundation of his film production company IFR, Ezel Akay directed more than 500 commercials.^[2]

In 1996 Ezel Akay produced together with the Turkish film director Dervis Zaim for Zaim's debut feature Somersault in a Coffin, which won several national and international prizes. Where's Firuze? was the first feature, which Ezel Akay directed.

Filmography

1996: Somersault in a Coffin (Tabutta Rövaşata) (producer)
1999: Journey to the Sun (Güneşe Yolculuk) (executive producer)
2001: Elephants and Grass (Filler ve Çimen) (actor)
2001: The Waterfall (producer, actor)
2004: Where's Firuze? (Neredesin Firuze), (director, producer, actor)
2005: Making Boats out of Watermellon Rinds (Karpuz Kabuğundan Gemiler Yapmak) (producer)
2005: Robbery Alla Turca (Hırsız Var!), (actor)
2006: Killing the Shadows (Hacivat Karagöz Neden Öldürüldü?), (director, producer, writer, and actor)
2006: The Road Home (Eve Giden Yol) (actor)
2007: Adam and the Devil (Adem'in Trenleri) (producer, actor)
2007: Sözün Bittiği Yer (actor)
2007: Hicran Sokağı (actor)
2009: 7 Husbands for Hürmüz (7 Kocalı Hürmüz), (director, actor)
2011: Gümüş Lale Burası Osmanlı 1711 (director, scriptwriter)
2013: F Type Film - 9 jail stories, (director, actor - episode 2)
2014: Küçük Kara Balıklar (director)
2017: Martıların Efendisi (actor)
2020: Leyla Everlasting (9 Kere Leyla), (director, producer, scriptwriter)
2020: Yarım Kalan Aşklar (actor)

References

^ "Official website of the production company IFR". Archived from the original on 2007-06-02. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
^ "Short profile of Ezel Akay on the website of the German movie distributor MAXXIMUM Film Und Kunst Gmbh (German)". Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2010-12-11.