Nazan Kesal

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

7.22

Gender

Female

Birthday

28-Mar-1969

Age

(55 years old)

Place of Birth

Manisa, Turkey

Also Known As
  • Nazan Kırılmış

Nazan Kesal

Biography

Nazan Kesal (née Kırılmış; born 28 March 1969) is a Turkish stage and screen actress. In 2004, she worked as a director and actor in Diyarbakır State Theater. The artist who was appointed to Bursa State Theater in early 2004, also worked in private groups such as Ankara Sanatevi Theater, Theater Mirror, Theater Istanbul, Diyarbakir Art Center.


Credits

Mahzendeki Köpekler Mahzendeki Köpekler (2022) Character: Seslendirme
Edirne’s city dump, home to many strays, is cleared for the construction of a city prison. The film is a reflection on the desire to transform wilderness into civilization and the suppression of instincts.
Suyun Yüzü Suyun Yüzü (2023) Character: N/A
Deniz returns to her hometown to attend her widowed mother's wedding. The anger, fear, and guilt she thought she'd left behind, resurface during the visit. As her mother leaves her the family house, a tragedy haunts her. She can't stop thinking about her father drowning at sea. Moreover, she feels her mother blames her and has abandoned her for it. She realizes she won't be able to move on like her mother unless she faces her problems head-on. Following a confrontation, Deniz accepts the past and takes a real step into adulthood. Sitting by the sea, she is at peace. The sea is no longer a threat but a sign of liberation. She jumps in.
Daire Daire (2014) Character: Betül
In the hard-boiled world, where will the soft-shelled end up? A cozy kind of extermination is on the stage and keeping a low profile. The decadence around us is nothing less than clandestine annihilation of the civil man. Yet it is carried out so well with a grinning face, it is officially sold as transition. Now that the tamed indulgent is striped off social justice, welfare, even denied the tender love of concentration camps and slavery plantations of past centuries. At least hand them a round of rope They have high expectations from taking things in their own hands. Circle is a peculiar story of an ordinary man caught between an untimely romance and a brave new hostile world.
Gri Bölge Gri Bölge (2015) Character: Mother
As an unexpected truth about a young women gets revealed to her mother, the basic fact that a mother - daughter relationship is supposed to be based on unconditional love will have to be questioned.
Dağınık Yatak Dağınık Yatak (2015) Character: N/A
It's a quiet morning and a middle-aged woman is lying on the bed, watching her sleeping husband's back.
Beyhude Beyhude (2018) Character: Mother
The struggle of a mother who tries to understand her son by putting herself in his shoes after his death.
Making Climates Making Climates (2006) Character: N/A
A documentary about the shooting session of the film "Climates / İklimler" by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. The film had been shot in various parts of Turkey in various seasons. Climates is the first digital film of the director Nuri Bilge Ceylan. And besides directing, he is also acting in the film.
Kardeşim Benim Kardeşim Benim (2016) Character: Ayşe's Mother
Two resentful, singer brothers Hakan and Ozan who can't get along well. Meet again in their father's funeral. Even though they want to get back to their daily lives after the funeral, their father's will won't allow it. They will take a journey with their dead father's old car in order to carry out his bequest which is to sing at a wedding in Urla.
Cazibe Hanımın Gündüz Düşleri Cazibe Hanımın Gündüz Düşleri (1992) Character: Fal Baktırmaya Gelen Kadın
Cazibe is a woman in her late thirties, who has never got married or had a relationship with a man in her life. She lives with her old mother and her uncle who feels an attraction towards her. The lonely woman, whose only existence is her small room, spends all her time in this old room, dreaming and fantasising about her ex-lover.
Kaygı Kaygı (2017) Character: Television programmer
Hasret has been seeing the same nightmare for some time, but she keeps living unaware that what she sees is actually remembering. A 30-year-old woman who works in a News Channel, living alone in the flat left by her musician parents who died in a car crash twenty years ago. Is it? The question creeps into her mind, and then (or maybe even before) her life through recurring nightmares: Is it possible that her parents did not die in a car crash?
Gölge Oyunu Gölge Oyunu (1992) Character: Sezen
Mahmut and Abidin work as comedians at a night club, Mahmut is honest yet Abidin is sly. A deaf and mute girl named Kumru is brought to work in the night club.
Nasipse Adayız Nasipse Adayız (2020) Character: Figen
Doctor Kemal is head of a private hospital, is ambitious and has the best intentions for the residents of Istanbul. He is the best candidate for mayor of the Beyoglu district – in his opinion. An opinion not shared by his sceptical ex-wife; nor by the voters who come to eat and drink at his expense; nor the party leader, who even after several meetings still thinks he's an architect rather than a doctor; not even his faithful chauffeur. The slogan 'the doctor has the cure' might be catchy, but the doctor has little clue how sick the climate of political nepotism really is.
İklimler İklimler (2006) Character: Serap
Man was made to be happy for simple reasons and unhappy for even simpler ones – just as he is born for simple reasons and dies for even simpler ones... Isa and Bahar are two lonely figures dragged through the ever-changing climate of their inner selves in pursuit of a happiness that no longer belongs to them.
Delibal Delibal (2015) Character: Selma
A love story following two young people battling with their emotions and dreams, the pressures of career, family and not knowing what the future holds. Füsun is a brilliant student, destined for a successful career but can't help from falling for Baris, a musician who struggles with a psychological disorder. As the two grow closer they start to adopt each other's traits, but becoming increasingly dependent on one another proves damaging for their relationship.
Aydede Aydede (2018) Character: Neriman
Losing his father at a very young age, Bekir lives with his mother Rabia and grandfather İlyas, who jointly run a haberdashery store. When İlyas passes away, to spare him grief young Bekir is told that “his beloved grandfather has gone to the moon and become Grandpa Moon.”
İstanbul Kanatlarımın Altında İstanbul Kanatlarımın Altında (1996) Character: Fahişe
During the sea battle which took place between the Ottoman Empire and the Italians, a ship which had been seized in the Mediterranean Sea is brought to Istanbul, and a young wounded lady named Francesca, the daughter of the killed Captain, becomes a slave for Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi.
Vicdan Vicdan (2008) Character: Fatma
Centers on a passionate and complicated love story that connects three small-town people trying to survive solely on their labor. Aydanur is a young woman living in Anatolia who wants to break away from whatever life has--or doesn't have--to offer her. Meanwhile, Mahmut is stuck between Aydanur and his wife, Songul. However, Aydanur starts covering a much bigger space in his heart. The roads of the two intersect at a tavern.
Tuzdan Kaide Tuzdan Kaide (2018) Character: N/A
A reclusive woman in her thirties leads a life frozen in time in a cave-like room. In her rare trips to the city, she chats with an oarswoman haunted by the devils. She searches for her twin sister in unfrequented corners of the city. In this journey in which time and space are out of joint, a same dream is recounted time after time.
Uzak Uzak (2002) Character: Lover (as Nazan Kırılmış)
After his wife leaves him, a photographer has an existential crisis and tries to cope with his cousin's visit.
Yazgı Yazgı (2001) Character: Nermin
Musa, a customs clerk, lives quietly with his mother. Tragedy and change come for him, as they do for everyone, and he must confront his own attitude towards life’s absurdity.
Kırık Kalpler Bankası Kırık Kalpler Bankası (2017) Character: Suzan
Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in Istanbul, the tragic story of three heroes chasing an unlikely dream, running towards their sad end in a Shakespearean manner.
Toz Bezi Toz Bezi (2015) Character: Hatun
Nesrin and Hatun are two Kurdish cleaning women living in Istanbul. While Nesrin tries to survive with her little daughter, trying to understand why her husband left her, Hatun dreams of buying a house in the district where they clean.
Saç Saç (2010) Character: Meryem
A wig-maker from Istanbul, who suffers from cancer, becomes obsessed with a woman who enters his shop one day.



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