Apr 30 2014
Pelin Batu
Actress, Television Personality, Historian
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 and also pursued musical and theatre training at Mannes College of Music. After starting literature and philosophy at New York University, she switched her subject to history and completed it at Boğaziçi University. She made her film debut in Harem Suare in 1999 and has gone on to act with several more films and TV series.
Batu also hosted a show titled Tarihin Arka Odası (The Back Room of History) which aired on HaberTürk with Murat Bardakçı and Erhan Afyoncu. Interested in poetry from a young age, she has written, translated, and published many poems.
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. She is a columnist at Milliyet Newspaper.
Filmography
– Harem Suare, 1999
– Akşam Güneşi, 1999
– Hayal Kurma Oyunları, 1999
– Komser Şekspir, 2000
– Şellale, 2001
– O Şimdi Asker, 2002
– İçerideki, 2002
– Baba, 2003
– Bakış, 2003
– Ayışığı Neredesin, 2004
– Kerem ile Aslı, 2004
– Sessiz Gece, 2005
– Pars: Kiraz Operasyonu, 2006
– Dün Gece Bir Rüya Gördüm, 2006
– Ben Fazla Kalmayacağım, 2007
– Hicran Sokağı, 2007
– Yağmurdan Sonra, 2008
– Kanımdaki Barut, 2009
Publications
The Book of Winds (2009)
Glass (2003)
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