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Merve Dizdar

Merve Dizdar

Birth : 1986-06-25, Izmir, Turkey

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Merve Dizdar (born 25 June 1986) is a Turkish actress. She was born in Izmir, Turkey. She is a graduate of Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University School of Fine Arts with a degree in acting. She received her master's degree in acting from Kadir Has University. She started her career on stage by joining Semaver Company and continued it at Craft Theatre. Dizdar made her cinematic debut with Bir Ses Böler Geceyi (2011) alongside Cem Davran and pursued a career in television with recurring roles in the series Kavak Yelleri, Genis Aile, Bir Yastikta, Doksanlar, Cilgin Dershane Üniversite, and was first noted with her role in Bes Kardes. She also worked for TRT Children, presenting the programs Arkadasim Bidi and 23 Nisan Senlige Dogru. Dizdar won the Afife Jale Theatre Best Actress Award for her role in the play Yutmak. She then joined the cast of hit series 7 Yüz, Vatanim Sensin, and Mucize Doktor respectively. In 2020, she had a leading role with Uraz Kaygilaroglu in the Gupse Özay's comedy film Eltilerin Savasi, which as of April 2021 is the 22nd most-watched movie of all time in Turkey according to Box Office Türkiye. She shared the leading role with Serenay Sarikaya, Ezgi Mola, Enis Arikan, Sükrü Ozyildiz in a musical adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In 2020, she started to play in the series Masumlar Apartmani and won Golden Butterfly Awards Best Actress. She played an actress and her many roles in Cem Yilmaz's Netflix spin off comedy series Ersan Kuneri. In 2022 she starred in Selcen Ergun's Kay ve Ayi/Snow and Bear. In 2023, she starred in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Kuru Otlar Ustüne /About Dry Grasses , for which she become first Turkish actress at the 76th Cannes Film Festival by winning the Best Actress award for her portrayal of a teacher.

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Merve Dizdar

Merve Dizdar

Merve Dizdar

Merve Dizdar

Merve Dizdar

Merve Dizdar

Merve Dizdar

Merve Dizdar

Merve Dizdar

Merve Dizdar

Movies

Alice The Musical

Alice The Musical

Cheshire Cat

Feeling stuck in her life, Alice follows the call of a mobile app and plots into a virtual world by following the white rabbit. She finds herself in a fantastic world while she searching for answers to the “Who am I?”. Alice will test her courage in this new universe with her imagination and fears.

Aynur

Two brothers Yılmaz and Müjdat, who have grown up in an orphanage, are inherited a car body repair shop from Nuri and İsmet who were like fathers to them. One night they take an old grumpy man's car to couple of streets away. In the middle of the night, when they are hotwiring the car, the old man's heart can't take it. Thus, their short journey now leads them to somewhere unknown. One thing leads to another, now Yılmaz and Müjdat have to put the old man's dead body into a thinner solvent tank. The duo keeps painting the cars in their shop but they realize that the thinner they take from the tank with the dead body is giving amazing results. That "a couple of streets away" now leads to something really odd.

Snow and the Bear

Snow and the Bear

Aslı

A young nurse starts a new assignment in a small isolated village in the farthest reaches of Turkey, a place that seems asleep in an endless winter. A thick layer of snow covers the souls as well as the lands. But under the snow, unspeakable secrets hibernate.

Have You Ever Seen Fireflies?

Have You Ever Seen Fireflies?

Rebellious, irreverent wunderkind Gülseren navigates loneliness, love and loss against the current of political turmoil and social change.

Sisters-In-Law at War

Sisters-In-Law at War

Gizem

Two sisters-in-law live as neighbors in the same apartment building with the mother-in-law who promised to give a beautiful sea-view penthouse to the one who delivers the first grandchild. A battle of egos erupts on social media.

This film talks about the possibility of the course of two lives through the love between Umut and Deniz. It questions how one’s decisions can shape their fate. Sometimes small moments and decisions can entirely change the course of our lives. Umut’s decision to take his dog Oscar for an evening walk allows his path to cross Deniz’s. On that night, Umut will have to decide between a gateway which leads to love and a life which he needs to face and encounter on his own.

My Name is Batlir, not Butler

My Name is Batlir, not Butler

Yudum

Hello, my name is Batlır, not Butler. I’m not actually overweight, I just have some excess in a certain area…. It is told in Anatolia that a baby looks like whatever the mother craves while pregnant. My mother craved for watermelon. I mostly talk to 52 Hertz, she is the loneliest whale in the world, and she is my best friend.

Pınar

Leaving behind a ruined career and a bitter divorce, Selim returns to his hometown Izmir. Unwilling to make plans for the future, he wanders around revisiting his past: family, schoolmates, an ex-lover. He runs into Cihan, a friend from the military service, an idler with a charming energy. As people start leaving Izmir due to a terrible smell caused by a mysterious maritime accident, Selim finds himself gradually drawn to a new world where he will go back embracing the possibilities of life.

Organic Love Stories

Organic Love Stories

Buket

Sekreter Merve

Mandıra Filozofu

Mandıra Filozofu

Sekreter

Mustafaali, as a person who left the modern life behind him and lives in Cokertme Village, spends his days by reading books. Mustafaali, a person who is against working, satisfies all his vital needs from the blessing of nature. Cavit, on the other hand, is a rich businessman who lives in Istanbul. He has worked in his entire life and all he matters is to work, to earn and to make savings. Cavit's life becomes upside down after he met Mustafaali when he wants to buy Mustafaali's land to build a boutique hotel in Cokertme Bay. Living far from the modern life in his small land under the natural circumstances, Mustafaali's philosophy confuses Cavit who is a person from a big city.

Bir Ses Böler Geceyi

Bir Ses Böler Geceyi

Gülizar ve Demet

About Dry Grasses

About Dry Grasses

Nuray

The film follows Samet, a young teacher, who is finishing his fourth year of compulsory service in a remote village in Anatolia, while hoping to be assigned to Istanbul. When he and his colleague Kenan are accused of harassment by two female students, he loses all hope of escaping the grim life he seems to be stuck in. But his meeting with Nuray, herself a teacher, may help him overcome his angst.