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person_profile-Cem Yılmaz

Cem Yılmaz Age: 52

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Cem Yılmaz

Date of Birth:

Apr 23, 1973

Country of birth:

Turkey

Biography of

Cem Yılmaz

    While studying at the Department of Tourism and Hotel Management of Bogazici University, he started drawing comics for the Turkish humor magazine Leman. In August 1995 he did his first stand-up comedy show in "Leman Culture Center" performing with no serious career intentions as a comedian. However, after the positive response of the audience, he continued his show to attract larger crowds in Besiktas Cultural Center where he has appeared in over a thousand stand-up comedy shows since, becoming so popular that tickets have sold for 250TL (approx. US$140).

    His movie career started in 1998 with a co-starring role in the comedy Everything's Gonna Be Great (1998), directed by Ömer Vargi, and continued with a role in Vizontele (2001), directed by Yilmaz Erdogan and Ömer Faruk Sorak. He achieved his greatest success by starring in and writing big-budget science-fiction parody G.O.R.A. (2004), also directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak, which despite spending several years in production because of financial and other technical problems became a box-office hit and described by Rekin Teksoy as a strong sign that showed that popular cinema was successful in appealing to wide audiences. He maintained this success with a starring role in the comedy feature movie Magic Carpet Ride (2005) AKA 'Magic Carpet Ride', also directed by Yilmaz Erdogan, for which he won Best Supporting Actor at the 11th Sadri Alisik Awards, and his directorial debut with The Magician (2006), co-directed by Ali Taner Baltaci, for which he won Best Actor at the 34th Brussels International Independent Film Festival and 12th Sadri Alisik Awards. He has since repeated his box office success with a sequel to G.O.R.A. (2004) called A.R.O.G (2008), also co-directed by Ali Taner Baltaci, and comedy Western parody called Yahsi Bati - The Ottoman Cowboys (2009), directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak. That same year, he co-starred, alongside veteran actor Sener Sen, in the police drama Hunting Season (2010), written and directed by Yavuz Turgul, and made a special appearance in drama Zefir (2010), written and directed by Belma Bas. After two years he also acted in Ferzan Özpetek's A Magnificent Haunting (2012). After he filmed his last stand-up comedy show CM101MMXI Fundamentals (2013) directed by Murat Dündar, he announced that for the next few years he will stop his stand-up comedy shows to have a rest.

    Along his professional career, he has won numerous awards and appeared in more than 4000 stand-up comedy shows, took part in 10 movies and contributed as a dubbing performer in 4 movies.

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Cem Yılmaz

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Filmography of

Cem Yılmaz

Found 29 Movies in total

Do Not Disturb

Ayzek ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 2023

Kavur

Actor

... 2023

... 2021

Comidark Films 2: The Pawn

Birol ( Actor )

Writer

... 2020

Comidark Films 2: Insane

Güven ( Actor )

Writer

... 2020

Comidark Films: In Between

Ayzek ( Actor )

Writer

... 2019

Comidark Films: The Getaway

Alpay ( Actor )

Writer

... 2019

... 2018

Arif V 216

Arif Işık / Erşan Kuneri ( Actor )

Writer

... 2018

Deli Aşk

Şefik Ercan ( Actor )

... 2017

61 Days

Cibar Kemal ( Actor )

... 2016

Ali Baba and the 7 Dwarfs

Ali Şenay / Boris Mancov ( Actor )

Writer

... 2015

The Water Diviner

Sgt. Jemal ( Actor )

... 2014

Coming Soon

Zafer Yıldız / Beşir ( Actor )

Writer

... 2014

... 2013

A Magnificent Haunting

Yusuf Antep ( Actor )

... 2012

... 2011

Hunting Season

İdris ( Actor )

... 2010

... 2010

Yahşi Batı

Aziz Bey ( Actor )

Writer

... 2009

A.R.O.G

Arif / Komutan Logar / Kaaya / Koobar / Enigma ( Actor )

Writer

... 2008

CMYLMZ

Self ( Actor )

Writer

... 2008

The Magician

Iskender Tünaydin ( Actor )

Author

... 2006

Magic Carpet Ride

Müslüm Durulmaz ( Actor )

... 2005

G.O.R.A.

Arif / Komutan Logar / Erşan Kuneri ( Actor )

Writer

... 2004

... 2001

Vizontele

Fikri ( Actor )

... 2001

... 1999

Everything's Gonna Be Great

Altan ( Actor )

Writer

... 1998