Feride Çetin

Born

5 November 1980 (aged 46)

Place of birth

Istanbul

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie

Feride Çetin was born on 5 November 1980 in Istanbul; her family migrated from Bulgaria. In 2001 she graduated from the Radio, Television and Cinema Department of the Faculty of Communication at Istanbul University, and then completed a master's degree in cinema and television at Marmara University. She trained for about a year at the Tiyatro Araştırmaları Laboratuvarı founded by Ayla Algan and Erol Keskin.

While she wanted to work behind the camera, she was chosen for the lead role by Kutluğ Ataman on the set of the film İki Genç Kız, where she had joined as an assistant. For Behiye, the character she played in the film, she won best actress at the Altın Koza in 2006; in the same year she received the promising actor awards at the Ankara Film Festival and the Sadri Alışık Awards.

On television, she played the characters Güzide Yıldız in Hatırla Sevgili, Çiçek Baldar Moran in Aşk ve Ceza and Zehra Şadoğlu in Hercai. In cinema, she played Figen in the film Güzel Günler Göreceğiz, and on stage she appeared in the play Yalan İçinde Yalan. Çetin, who has directed around fifteen short films, has also worked as a translator and journalist.

Çetin played Havva in Avşar Film's 2008 film Ulak.