Despite some remaining boxes to tick, I have realized some of my resolutions. I am now signed with two agencies, one in my current home, The Netherlands, and the other in my native home, Turkey.

It was a Dutch director, curious about my availability for his upcoming feature. Yes! It did happen. Just like a memory told in …

Have you yet checked my newest headshots, taken after my corona-cut in the midst of motherhood and the world of on-hold:s caused by our most unwelcome COVID-19?

It is just that giant question mark in me that remains unanswered, which I dyingly command to unravel. Why does belonging matter so much in my profession's tale that demands …

Wow! It has been two years since my last post. I honestly do not even know where to start. What I know now and what matters is that I am alive, healthy, happy and like my usual self in my natural habitat with the addition of a …

Throughout the years, I mastered some foreign languages and created my own almost-native accent in some other; and this year I want parts also in Turkish. I might be too stubborn in my idea of nativeness…

The month of January will unravel two long-awaited audition call-backs for amazing projects I have been crossing my fingers for. They are both European on a wider scope and …

I completed my first 48Hour film challenge. I co-produced and -wrote the film and acted in it; not to forget to mention that I also designed the poster…

As the world societies build their own unique pressures on its members, I met parts of Layla there for the first time, in all of us. Such an exciting luxury, I thought…

Having such a fun and rewarding photoshoot and managing the time so efficiently was truly a wow! accomplishment. A functioning team is a blast!..

I have been telling stories, graphically first. Communicating them via emotional imagery, shapes and visual elements. Reaching out to the ones that sniff out with their eyes. Then, …

Here I am on a beautiful Italian island at a Script Analysis course and I am homesick. Period. Neither the beautiful little village I am in nor the wonderful intensity of the course makes it up for me…

Today I completed my third film collaboration of the month. All these wonderful chances were given to me by passionate filmmakers whom contacted me directly. All without any audition rounds…

Headshots are a lot deeper than pretty pictures. They are frames of stories to be told. Therefore, it is crucial to work with a photographer that can see you, let you create and capture it in the right moment…

I adore camera acting because I love that medium most. However, stage is different. Stage acting is an interactive meeting with your audience, a more analog interplay, a true handshake…

My actor brain started questioning intellectually but chose eventually to follow the instructions obediently to see the impact in real time. I could then set loose and simply re-focus…

For as long as I can remember, acting has been my biggest passion. Being an actor was the first thing I wanted to do in life. I still remember my first audition for a school play when I was 12 years old…

I had a photography session this week. What a pleasure to start the session with the question "So, what shall we listen to?" and how lucky I am that we both like Chet Baker :) …

Everything is in haste as if you are in an ant colony, things get arranged quickly and all that work and energy is only for some seconds at the end. Such rhythm and pressure calls for creativity, usually…

Until my training in The Method, I have not studied acting anywhere. I certainly had no traditional training where many in Europe would find unfortunate. Me, not. No doubt, how precious right education is. I think…