Ecem Baltacı

Ecem Baltacı — Biography

Turkish actress Ecem Baltacı is best known for her part as Selin Egemen in Fazilet Hanım ve Kızları, the Star TV series that premiered in 2017. She works in television, cinema and theater, and came to acting through the visual arts: she studied painting in high school and then graduated from the Plastic Arts Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Yeditepe University.

For acting she learned on-camera technique from Ayla Algan and voice and breathing methods from İlknur Açıkel. Her first screen role came in O Hayat Benim during the 2015-2016 seasons, playing the character Hanife. In 2016 she took the part of İdil in the FOX drama Umuda Kelepçe Vurulmaz. Coming in quick succession, these series made her one of the younger actors Turkish viewers knew, and Fazilet Hanım ve Kızları in 2017, a series that drew a wide audience, carried her name to a larger public. Around the same time she also appeared on the big screen in the film Yalnız Hayaller Kaldı.

In a press interview she said that kickboxing helps her relax, and in interviews published in the summer of 2019 she said that in her new project she would this time play the good girl. Alongside her television work she also performs on stage, and she began her career quickly, taking roles in one production after another in her first years.