Dilek Çelebi

Born

1 May 1980 (aged 46)

Place of birth

Ankara

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 series

Dilek Çelebi was born on 1 May 1980 in Ankara and completed her education in the city. She was introduced to theater at the age of seventeen, during her time as a trainee at the Ankara Sanat Tiyatrosu. In 1999 she appeared on stage with the Tiyatro Onuncu Köy team, and in 2003 she graduated from the acting main art branch of the Theater Department of the Faculty of Language and History-Geography at Ankara University.

While still a student, in 2001, she founded with her department classmates the Mahşer-i Cümbüş company, which focused on improvisational theater, and continued to perform with this team. She worked as a drama teacher in private schools and nurseries, and between 2003 and 2005 she worked as a voice-over artist.

She began on television with the series Ferhunde Hanımlar, broadcast on TRT 1; on the same channel she appeared in the children's program Matematik Oyunu. She then played Fatoş in the series 6 Mantı, Aysel Dostum in Kadim Dostum and Hülya in No: 309. In cinema she took the role of Betty in the film Yahşi Batı; she also acted in the films Halam Geldi and Vezir Parmağı.

Çelebi played Elmas in Avşar Film's 2013 series Bugünün Saraylısı.