Sevinç Aktansel

Born

27 November 1937

Place of birth

Istanbul

Died

25 August 2011 (aged 73)

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie

Sevinç Aktansel was born in 1937 in Istanbul. She is the daughter of Saim Aktansel, the founder of the Vefa Sports Club. In 1962 she graduated from the Ankara State Conservatory Theater Department.

During her long career, she worked as an actor and director for fifteen years at the Ankara State Theatre, thirteen years at the Ahmet Vefik Paşa Theatre in Bursa and twelve years at the Istanbul State Theatre. She appeared in nearly seventy plays and staged more than twenty. She taught diction, speaking and theater courses at the Mimar Sinan, Yıldız Technical and Trakya universities.

She was seen regularly on television after 1996; she appeared in the series Asmalı Konak, Büyük Yalan, Şehnaz Tango and Tatlı Hayat, and most recently appeared before audiences in the series Bez Bebek. In 2010 she acted in the State Theatre's play King Kong'un Kızları. Aktansel died on 25 August 2011.

Aktansel appeared in Avşar Film's 2006 film Gece Gelen Arkadaşlar.