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Levend Yılmaz

Levend Yılmaz

Actor · 77 years old

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Age77
Birth dateNovember 17, 1948
BirthplaceAnkara
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signScorpio
Eye colorBrown
EducationIstanbul University Faculty of Forestry

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Levend Yılmaz — Biography

Since 1984 Levend Yılmaz has worked in cinema, television series and theater as a Turkish actor, and he also does voice work. On television he played Lütfi Pasha in Hürrem Sultan and Şeyhülislam Mustafa in Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem. In Kalbimdeki Deniz, broadcast on FOX, he played the character Mehmet.

After graduating from the Faculty of Forestry at Istanbul University he decided to become an actor and began training at Dostlar Tiyatrosu. He made his cinema debut in 1984 as a cleric in Bir Yudum Sevgi, and played Hamza in Adı Vasfiye. In the 1990s he played the village headman in Berdel and Cezmi in Duruşma.

In the 2000s he worked mostly in television, playing Halet in Yeditepe İstanbul and Nazif Eroğlu in Çemberimde Gül Oya. He worked on Yer Gök Aşk for three seasons from 2010. He has continued to work on stage as well.

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Their work through different eyes

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

Levend Yılmaz's film start unfolds in the worlds of Atıf Yılmaz (Bir Yudum Sevgi, Adı Vasfiye, Berdel) and Başar Sabuncu (Çıplak Vatandaş, Kupa Kızı, Kaçamak). These two distinct directors of the 1980s define his early cinema. When television took over in later decades, in my view that line of film partners fades.

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

The Şeyhülislam in Kösem, Lütfi Paşa in Hürrem Sultan, a religious functionary in Bir Yudum Sevgi: the men Levend Yılmaz is given come from the institutions of state and faith. In period series such figures tend to become part of the palace scenery; in my view this type in Yılmaz's work remains a frame used to carry the weight of history.

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