Levent Özdilek

Levent Özdilek

Actor · 71 years old

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Age71
Birth dateJanuary 14, 1955
BirthplaceAdana
ProfessionActor
Eye colorHazel
EducationAnkara State Conservatory, Theatre Department
Zodiac signCapricorn

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Levent Özdilek — Biography

Levent Özdilek is an actor from Adana who stepped in front of the camera as a child in a Yılmaz Güney film, spent many years on the stages of the Ankara and Istanbul State Theatres, and later made his name in cinema and television as well. He trained in the Theatre Department of the Ankara State Conservatory, and on screen he is best known for the character Pudra Hakkı in the series Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz.

After entering cinema in 1967 with Benim Adım Kerim, he then turned to the stage for years: from 1978 he appeared at the Ankara State Theatre in plays such as Brecht's Arturo Ui'nin Önlenebilir Yükselişi, Turan Oflazoğlu's Kösem Sultan and the Dostoyevski adaptation Ebedi Koca. In the early 1990s he moved to the Istanbul State Theatre; Hamlet (1993), Nâzım Hikmet's Kuvayi Milliye (1998) and Özel Hayatlar (1999) belong to that period, and he was back on stage in 2010 with Karanlık İşler.

On the big and small screen he played Lieutenant Colonel Nazım in Kurtuluş, Commissioner Kemal in Serseri and Cem Ergun in Kavak Yelleri, and in 2006 he also produced a film. In the 2020s he played Tekfur Basileus in Kuruluş Osman and Nostradamus in Prens.

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