Ezel Akay

Ezel Akay (born 20 January 1961) is a Turkish film actor, film director and film producer.
Life and work.
After Ezel Akay graduated as a mechanical engineer from the Bosporus University, he was trained as actor at the US-American Villanova University.
Before Ezel Akay started to work in the Turkish film business and co-founded the Turkish production company "IFR", he worked as copywriter, theatre director and –actor. Since the foundation of his film production company "IFR", Ezel Akay directed more than 500 commercials.
In 1996 Ezel Akay produced together with the Turkish film director Dervis Zaim for Zaim's debut feature Somersault in a Coffin, which won several national and international prizes. Where's Firuze? was the first feature, which Ezel Akay directed.