Yaprak Özdemiroğlu is a Turkish

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 actress, and ballet

Ballet

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 dancer.

Career

Daughter of Atilla Özdemiroğlu

Atilla Özdemiroglu

Atilla Özdemiroğlu, aka Attila Özdemiroğlu, is a Turkish composer and arranger. He is best known for his award winning film scores in the 1970s and 1980s....

, a film score

Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 and arranger

Arranger

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, Özdemiroğlu was born in Ankara, the Turkish capital. She studied ballet technique

Ballet technique

The core technique of ballet has only minor regional variations globally. Various training methods have been devised, these produce a different physicality of performance and aesthetic results...

 at Turkish State Conservatory. She started her career with theatre acting.

In 1981, she moved to Istanbul and started acting at local movies and TV series.

Personal life

On 9 September 2011, it has been featured on various local papers that Özdemiroğlu and Cem Yılmaz

Cem Yilmaz

Cem Yılmaz is a Turkish stand-up comedian, actor and filmmaker, best known for his films G.O.R.A. , A.R.O.G and Yahşi Batı , who has won two Sadri Alışık awards for his roles in Organize İşler and The Magician .-Biography:While studying at the Department of Tourism and Hotel Management of...

, a prominent Turkish writer and stand-up comedian, have been seen together during the concert of Jamiroquai

Jamiroquai

Jamiroquai is a British jazz funk and acid jazz band formed in 1992. Jamiroquai were initially the most prominent component in the early-1990s London-based acid jazz movement, alongside groups such as Incognito, the James Taylor Quartet, and the Brand New Heavies. Other Acid Jazz artists such as...

. Yılmaz denied the rumours.

Movies

Year	Original Title	Alt. English Translation	Role	Notes
1981	Hababam Sınıfı Güle Güle	Hababam Grade Good Bye	Gamze	First Motion Picture
1981	Şöhretin Sonu	End of the Fame	Fiancée of Doğan
1982	Dolap Beygiri	Wheel Horse	Ayşe
1982	Alişan	Alişan	Aslı
1983	Şekerpare	Sweetheart	Şekerpare
1983	Beyaz Ölüm	The White Death	Emel
1983	Feryat	The Howl
1984	Dil Yarası	Wound of Speech	Hülya
1984	Çaresizim	I'm desperate	Ayşe
1984	Damga	The Seal	Ümran
1984	Sevmek Yeniden Doğmak	Loving (is) reborning	Leyla
1984	Fırtına Gönüller	The Storm Hearts
1984	Çılgın Arzular	Frantic Lust	Leyla
1985	Gülüşan	Gülüşan	Gülüşan
1986	Yarın Ağlayacağım	I'm gonna cry tomorrow	Dicle
1986	Merdoğlu Ömer Bey	Merdoğlu Ömer Bey	Ipek
1987	Yalnız Kadın	The Lonely Woman	Yaprak
1988	Arkadaşım Şeytan	My Friend Devil	Manken (the Model)

TV series

Year	Original Title	Alt. English Translation	Role	Notes
1994	Zontellektüel Abdullah	Abdullah the Zontellectual		First TV Series
2002	Kumsaldaki İzler	Signs on the beach
2002	Üzgünüm Leyla	Leyla, I'm Sorry

External links

• Özdemiroğlu on IMDB