Dilşad Çelebi

Born

4 July 1984 (aged 42)

Place of birth

Izmit

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 series

Dilşad Çelebi was born on 4 July 1984 in İzmit; her father is of Georgian descent and her mother is an immigrant from Greece. She finished a science high school and practiced taekwondo throughout her secondary school years. After graduating from Istanbul Bilgi University, she completed a master's degree in business administration at ITU.

During her university years she began writing for cartoons, working with Ali Murat Erkorkmaz, and wrote the dialogue of a cartoon series of eighty episodes aired on Star TV. She stepped in front of the camera with commercials; she trained in acting and improvisation with Mihran Tomasyan, Çağ Çalışkur and Laçin Ceylan.

On television she took the roles of Buse Yıldırım in the series Derdest, Bahar in Gönülçelen and Aslı Sağlam in İntikam; she also appeared in the series Eve Dönüş, Alija and Mehmetçik: Kut'ül-Amare. On stage she acted in the plays Çıplak Vatandaşlar and Uyandığımda Sesim Yoktu.

Çelebi, who continues to write, has had children's books published, notably the Yıldızsız Ülke series, as well as a novel called Tomris. In 2020 she released the song Bir Düş Bırak, whose lyrics she wrote herself.

Çelebi appeared in Avşar Film's 2013 series Bugünün Saraylısı.