Who is Cansu Dere, the actress who disappeared in the earthquake in Turkey?

  • The Turkish interpreter is the protagonist of successful soap operas such as ‘Mother’ and ‘Unfaithful’

Among the long list of those missing in the terrible earthquake that has shaken southern Turkey is Cansu Dere, the soap opera queens Turks who are so successful in our country. The protagonist of fictions like ‘Sila’ and ‘Ezel’, that reached our televisions in 2018, and, above all, from ‘Mother’, that unleashed the fever for Ottoman soap operas at the hands of Nova, and ‘Unfaithful’one of the latest hits on Antena 3, is an absolute star in his country.

Dere (Ankara, 1980), the daughter of Turkish immigrants from Greece and Bulgaria, combined her studies in Archeology in the Faculty of Letters of Istanbul University with small jobs in advertising spots, since at that time he already stood out for his physique. To the point that he chose to Miss Universe in the year 2000, a contest that he could not attend, by decision of the Turkish Government, as it was held in the neighboring Cyprus, an enemy country with Turkey for years.

model in paris

However, that was the beginning of a career as model and over the years 2002 and 2003 paraded in important fashion catwalks in paris for major brands and renowned photographers. And from there she jumped into acting. Her first opportunity came with the series ‘Metropalas’, in 2004, in which she was already the protagonist. Others would come later, always playing the main role, in addition to five films.

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She had become a star and, with herthe ‘boom’ of Turkish soap operas, this fame has spread to world levelhe. Spaina country to which he often travels for vacationbecause he is passionate about our culture and our gastronomy — in addition to the work of Javier Bardem–, received it at the end of 2021 to grant it a prize of the Spanish-Turkish Chamber of Commerce for its career path. It was precisely in Madrid that she found out that she had just been awarded with another: that of Best Actress in a Television Series in Foreign Language at the Produ Awards, the Latin American Emmys.

The last series that has premiered so far in Spain is ‘Unfaithful’, a soap opera that has reached large audiences on Antena 3 and that hooks, especially the female audience, for starring an empowered and modern woman in a country like Turkey, like Dere herself.

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