Meltem Yılmazkaya

Born

27 November 1984 (aged 41)

Place of birth

Istanbul

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 series

Meltem Yılmazkaya was born on 27 November 1984 in Istanbul. As a child she attended theater courses and from the age of 13 she worked as an entertainer. After completing a two-year acting course at the Müjdat Gezen Art Center, she studied on a scholarship in the Theater Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Yeditepe University and graduated in 2012.

She went on stage in 2008 with BKM's children's play Sizinkiler; after 2009 she took the roles of Fitnat in the series Aile Saadeti, Berivan in Benim Annem Bir Melek and Kadife in Şen Yuva. On Güldür Güldür Show, which began in 2013, she played many types, and was best known among them for the character Mehtap. In cinema, she acted in the films Dedemin Fişi, Kaçma Birader and Cici Babam.

Her short film neden(siz), which deals with violence against women and which she wrote and directed together with Fatih Kılıç, won first place in the Istanbul Short Filmmakers Association competition. The cast of the musical Sevmekten Öldü Desinler, in which she appeared, was awarded the jury's special prize at the Sadri Alışık awards in 2018. Yılmazkaya, who also composes songs, released the single Kendime Yalanlar in 2016.

Yılmazkaya played Senem in Avşar Film's 2010 series Lale Devri.