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Ayda Aksel

Ayda Aksel

Actor · 64 years old

Mediha in the series Kıskanmak

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Age64
Birth dateOctober 31, 1962
BirthplaceIstanbul
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signScorpio
Eye colorBrown
EducationMimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Theatre Department

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Ayda Aksel — Biography

Ayda Aksel is one of the Turkish actresses whose careers are most evenly split between stage and screen, remembered for her theater awards as much as for Azize Aslanbey in Hercai. She now plays Mediha Paşazade in Kıskanmak and shares the stage with Alina Boz in Çağan Irmak's first play, Palamut Zamanı.

As a primary-school pupil she studied ballet and cello at a conservatory, then read theater at Mimar Sinan University. She first appeared on stage in 1980 in Truva Savaşı Olmayacak at the Istanbul State Theatre, where she then spent fifteen years on the permanent staff, playing in Cadıların Macbethi, Gergedan, Yangın Yerinde Orkideler, Fırtına, Ölümüne Suçlu and Omuzumdaki Melek, among others. She also worked for a time at the Sadri Alışık Theatre, taught at Diyalog and voiced commercials. Her first screen work was Üç İstanbul in 1983, and in Cumhuriyet (1998) she played the writer Halide Edip Adıvar.

Most of her awards came in this period: for Kaçıklık Diploması she was named best actress at the Orhan Arıburnu awards and the Ankara Film Festival in 1999, and her stage work in Ölümüne Suçlu, Yarım Bardak Su and Omuzumdaki Melek won several theater prizes. Aşk Tesadüfleri Sever (2011) brought her the Sadri Alışık award for best supporting actress, followed by Zengin Kız Fakir Oğlan, Mandıra Filozofu and Kördüğüm. Then came Hercai (2019), Baba (as Fazilet Saruhanlı), Gülcemal and Kıskanmak, with Aşk Tesadüfleri Sever 3 on the way.

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

Kaçıklık Diploması is the title that puts Ayda Aksel at the center of the story: as Nur confronts her past in a hospital, the film keeps returning to childhood and marriage, which gives the actress room to show more than one mood. After Tunç Başaran's film, watching her as Halide Edip Adıvar in Ziya Öztan's Cumhuriyet shows two different faces of a measured, stage-trained acting style.

Series Binger A series devotee tracking character arcs, cast chemistry and season pacing.

Azize in Hercai is one of Ayda Aksel's best-known series roles: a grandmother who has nursed a revenge plan for twenty-seven years. In my view the writing mainly sets her up as the figure who starts the young leads' story, a long way from the detail that Nur in Kaçıklık Diploması offered. Being a cog in a series is not the same as carrying a character.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Ayda Aksel's filmography returns often to modern Turkish history. In Cumhuriyet she plays the writer Halide Edip Adıvar; the film sets Atatürk's political work beside his private life and was one of the big-budget productions of its time. Hatırla Sevgili follows Turkey's politics from the late 1950s to 1980 through two families, and Aksel is in its cast. Seeing a public figure and the recent political past through the same actress is interesting.

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