Denizhan Akbaba

He started his film career at the age of 8. He has appeared in theatre, film, and television. Few young actors have the career and experience that Denizhan has. He is best known for playing the title role in Ela with Hilmi and Ali (2022). Denizhan Akbaba was born September 3, 2001 in Istanbul, Turkey. He started performing in the theatre at the age of 12. For three years, he performed in plays. He underwent numerous tours as a result. He played at the Dortmund Theater, and that was his best performance. From the crowd, he received a perfect score. He played in this particular theatrical play for the first time as a child actor. At the age of fifteen, he won Young Talent Award. He was in Bahman Ghobadi's last film The Four Walls (2021). Denizhan was most forced in the drowning scene. Denizhan had an accident on the set and split his eyebrow. Akbaba began attracting the attention of directors, who cast him in small roles in a number of television series, such as Içerde (2016) and The Magnificent Century (2011) He gained a lot of attention with the character with autism in the series A Miracle (2019), in which he played. His performance in Girl with No Mouth (2019) brought him "7. Golden Sycamore Special Jury" award alongside with many other awards from other organizations. Growing up in and around the entertainment world it was not long before Denizhan's talent was spotted and he was encouraged to try acting professionally. Denizhan was featured in Last Summer (2021), a Netflix film. In 2015, Denizhan Akbaba appeared in his first lead feature film role in the drama One Day A Boy (2016). He portrayed a character in the movie named "Umut," who is the basketball team's captain and has gone through traumatic experiences in the past. For the movie, he worked with the acting coach. In 2018, Denizhan scored lead feature film role in the coming of age story Girl with No Mouth (2019). Not long after, he scored the role as Selim on the critically acclaimed 2019 FOX drama, A Miracle (2019). He did a great job portraying a sick autistic child. He made two other movies in the meantime, Ela with Hilmi and Ali and The Four Walls (unreleased). In 2022, he burst back into screens throughout the world with guest starring role in Whom Were We Running From? (2022), a Netflix TV Series.