Pelin Batu is a Turkish actress and television personality.

Biography

Due to her father İnal Batu's occupation as a diplomat, she spent her childhood in many foreign countries including Pakistan, Czech Republic, France and the USA. She completed high school at Marymount School in New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

 and also pursued musical and theatre training at Mannes College of Music

Mannes College of Music

Mannes College The New School for Music is The New School university's music conservatory. While the university's main campus is located in Greenwich Village, New York City, Mannes maintains its main academic building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan....

. After starting literature and philosophy at New York University

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

, she switched her subject to history and completed it at Boğaziçi University

Bogaziçi University

Boğaziçi University is a public university located on the European side of the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey. It has five faculties and two schools offering undergraduate degrees, and six institutes offering graduate degrees...

. She made her film debut in Harem Suare in 1999 and has gone on to act with several more films and TV series.

Batu

Batu (given name)

Batu is a common masculine Central Asian name. In Mongolian, "Batu" means firm/stable like Batu Khan or Batumongke. In Turkish, "Batu" means "Prevailing", and/or "Preponderant". It also connotes "The West" since "Batu" resembles "Batı" which means "west" in Turkish...

 also hosted a show titled Tarihin Arka Odası (The back room of history) which aired on HaberTürk with Murat Bardakçı

Murat Bardakçi

Murat Gökhan Bardakçı is a Turkish journalist working on Ottoman history and Turkish music history. Besides he is a columnist in Habertürk newspaper.-Biography:Bardakçı was born in 1955 in İstanbul...

 and Erhan Afyoncu.
Interested in poetry from a young age, she has written, translated, and published many poems. Her first book of poetry "Glass" was published in 2003, followed by "The Book of Winds" in 2009.

She has also appeared on the Turkish TV program Yeni seyler soylemek lazim, a part of the TRT Haber channel on 25 December 2010, in which she read her poem of "Wind of black stones" herself from her book. Having written poems from the age of eight, on this program she has admitted that even though she is an agnostic, if reincarnation existed she would be the reincarnation of the grandfather as he was also known for his interest in poetry which she is commonly compared to.

Filmography

• Harem Suare
  Harem Suare
  Harem Suare is a 1999 Turkish drama film directed by Ferzan Özpetek. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Marie Gillain - Safiye* Alex Descas - Nadir* Lucia Bosé - Old Safiye* Valeria Golino - Anita...
  
  (1999)
• Akşam Güneşi (1999)
• Hayal Kurma Oyunları (1999)
• Komser Şekspir (2000)
• Şelale (2001)
• O Şimdi Asker (2002)
• İçerideki (2002)
• Baba
  Baba
  - Geography :* Baba, Masovian Voivodeship * Baba, Mogilno County in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship * Baba, Rypin County in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship...
  
  (2003)
• Bakış
  Bakis
  Bakis or Bacis is a general name for the inspired prophets and dispensers of oracles who flourished in Greece from the 8th to the 6th century B.C. Suidas mentions three: a Boeotian, an Arcadian and an Athenian....
  
  (2003)
• Ayışığı Neredesin? (2004)
• Sessiz Gece (2005)
• Pars: Kiraz Operasyonu (2006)
• Dün Gece Bir Rüya Gördüm (2006)
• Bayrampaşa Ben Fazla Kalmayacağım (2007)
• Hicran Sokağı (2007)
• Yağmurdan Sonra (2008)
• Kanımdaki Barut (2009)

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