Name |
Belcim Bilgin |
Height |
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Naionality |
Turkish |
Date of Birth |
31-January-1983 |
Place of Birth |
Ankara, Turkey |
Famous for |
Acting |
Belcim Bilgin is Turkish actress, was upon completion of her High School education at the Mehmet Emin Resulzade Anatolian Lycee, selected for admission to the Ankara Art Theatre, where she studied until 2001. Leaving in the middle of a degree in information management at Hacettepe University, she travelled to Paris for the post-production of director Hiner Saleem’s first film, Kilometer Zero. While working on the film in Paris, she also received instruction in the French language at the Sorbonne School of Languages. In 2005, Kilometer Zero was released and entered in the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, as well as a number of other festivals.
After her second film Dol ou la Vallee Tambours was released in 2006, Belcim Bilgin returned to Turkey where she acted in a TV series named Hatırla Sevgili (Remember Beloved) and in a movie named Guz Sancısı (Pains of Autumn), directed by Tomris Giritlioglu. Under the 2010 European Capital of Culture program, she worked, with the director Hany Abu-Assad, on the Unutma Beni Istanbul (Forget Me Not Istanbul) project consisting of six short films and, subsequently, took on the role of Deniz in the film Ask Tesadufleri Sever (Love “Just a Coincidence”), directed by Omer Faruk Sorak and released in the February of 2011. Towards the end of 2011, she took on the role of Zilha in the ongoing series based on Haldun Taner’s immortal oeuvre Kesanli Ali Destani (the Legend of Kesanli Ali) directed by Cagan Irmak.