Duru Yücel Tofei

Duru Yucel Tofei was born on July 16th, 1986 in Izmir, Turkey. Her being a very expressive child with a playful existence later started to prove itself in the outer world when she sang in front of the class in primary school and staged impressions of all her teachers during secondary school years. She studied theatre in City Theatre of Municipality of Bornova for a year when she was 10 which at the end of the year, led to her playing two different characters in the play written by Sih Ali Yalçiner. From that moment on, she came to know very clearly the fact that she wanted to be an actress. Having inherited her mother's talent in languages, Duru also developed a similar interest and chose to study English-Turkish Interpretation and Translation in college. But her biggest passion never stopped haunting her, and following the university years, in order to have an acting training and bigger opportunities, she moved from Izmir to Istanbul and enrolled at The Studio Players, where she received three years of acting and art education. In 2014, she performed multiple times in the play named "Becoming A Rhinoceros 2.014" with The Studio Players. Between the years 2012 and 2017, Duru also acted in various TV series, commercials, and a short movie which traveled to Cannes. She is currently preparing for the lead role in the upcoming apocalyptic movie "We Put the World to Sleep" and co-writing the script for the upcoming female antihero thriller drama "Good Girl". Duru likes singing, especially jazz, and has a demo she handed out just to her family and friends. Swimming, yoga, spending time in nature, learning about the ways of the world and what's happening in it, learning about the causes she might have the privilege to support, the topics of spirituality, health, science, history and architecture are among her interests.