Ezel Akay | |
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| Born | 20 January 1961 |
| Occupation | Film director, producer and Screenplay writer |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 1 (b. 1998) |
Ezel Akay (born 20 January 1961) is a Turkish film actor, film director and film producer.
Ezel Akay | |
|---|---|
| | |
| Born | 20 January 1961 |
| Occupation | Film director, producer and Screenplay writer |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 1 (b. 1998) |
Ezel Akay (born 20 January 1961) is a Turkish film actor, film director and film producer.
After Ezel Akay graduated as a mechanical engineer from the Boğaziçi University, he was trained as actor at the US-American Villanova University.
Before Ezel Akay started to work in the Turkish film business and co-founded the Turkish production company IFR, [1] he worked as copywriter, theatre director and –actor. Since the foundation of his film production company IFR, Ezel Akay directed more than 500 commercials. [2]
In 1996 Ezel Akay produced together with the Turkish film director Dervis Zaim for Zaim's debut feature Somersault in a Coffin, which won several national and international prizes. Where's Firuze? was the first feature, which Ezel Akay directed.
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