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Tamer Levent
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Tamer Levent

Actor · 76 years old

Garip in the series İstanbullu Gelin

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Age76
Birth dateOctober 13, 1950
Birthplaceİzmir
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signLibra
Eye colorBrown
EducationAnkara State Conservatory, Theatre Department
SpouseSeynan Levent

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Tamer Levent — Biography

Tamer Levent is a figure of Turkish theater both on stage and in its institutions: actor, director, writer and former general director of the State Theatres. Television audiences know him from recent series such as İstanbullu Gelin, Camdaki Kız, Sakla Beni and Sahtekarlar, and film audiences from Emin Alper's Tepenin Ardı and Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Kış Uykusu.

Born in Karşıyaka, İzmir, he attended İzmir Turkish College for high school and entered the Theatre Department of the Ankara State Conservatory in 1971, graduating in 1977. At the State Theatres he worked first as an actor and then as a director. On March 25, 1994, he became general director in an election held at the institution only that once, and until August 10, 1994, he ran the Sanata Evet project. In 1984 he founded the Sanat Kurumu Deneme Sahnesi, and he is the founder and first president of TOMEB and has led the TOBAV foundation. He taught creative acting at universities in New York, Berlin and Warwick, and plays he directed were invited to festivals in Russia, Canada, South Korea, Iran and Northern Cyprus.

Tepenin Ardı (2012) brought him best-actor awards at the Ankara and Malatya film festivals, and Kış Uykusu (2014) won the Palme d'Or. A stage performance had earned him a best-actor award in 2009. On television he played Garip in İstanbullu Gelin and historical figures in Diriliş Ertuğrul and Fatih. He married producer Seynan Levent in 1982; they have two children.

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

Tamer Levent's most interesting film work sits in films with a strong directorial voice: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Ahlat Ağacı and Kış Uykusu, Emin Alper's Tepenin Ardı. Because these films move by dialogue and the presence of the performer, they leave generous room for a stage-trained actor. In my view the ensemble television work, İstanbullu Gelin for example, does not give him the same depth; to see him, go to these three films first.

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

Tamer Levent's historical figures, in Diriliş Ertuğrul, Fatih and Abdülmecit in Cumhuriyet, tell of turning points through men of authority: people whose word counted while a state was founded or changing hands. In my view this repetition also shows the habit of Turkish screens to build the national past around great men.

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