Özlem Balcı, born on March 25, 1984 in Muğla, is a name known as a producer in the Turkish television and cinema world. Balcı, who started his education life in Fethiye, started his working life while he was a student. In addition to working as a DJ on a local radio during his high school years, he also worked as a news anchor, copywriter and reporter in the same institution.
Balcı, who gained production experience with the program "Özlemce", which he prepared and presented, also hosted the program "Özlem in Our Village" and directed the program "Sabah Şekerleri". He also worked as a news anchor on Şah TV, one of Muğla's local channels. While continuing his education, he worked in the fields of animation and public relations at a holiday village during the holiday periods, and even demonstrated his talent in this field by directing theater plays in English.
Özlem Balcı, who left her university education and started studying theater, started her acting career with small roles. She made her first big breakthrough with the character of Makbule in the TV series "Arka Sokaklar", which started in 2006. Then, she appeared before the audience with the character of Aslı in the TV series "Doctors".
During this period, she also took part in projects such as "Annem", "Dudaktan Kalbe" (Inci character), "Hepsi 1" (Özlem character). In 2008-2009, he took on different roles in TV series such as "Akasya Durağı", "Ece", "Yalancı Romantik", "Yol Dostim", "Zülfikâr", "İpsiz Recep", "Ah Kalpim" and "Unutulmaz". In the same period, he had his first cinema experience with the movie "Super Agent K9".
Continuing her career without slowing down, Balcı played the characters of Deniz in the TV series "Umut Yolcuları" and Elif Teacher in the TV series "Canan". Balcı, who also appeared in movies, gave life to the characters of Asiye in "Where the Fire Falls" and Helin in "Siya Mem-u Zin". In 2013, she made the audience laugh with her role as Yıldız, the wife of Kahveci Mesut, in the TV series "Seksenler".
In the following years, he starred in the TV movie "Rich and Poor" and the movie "Merdiven Baba". In 2016, it was planned to portray the character of Emine Erdoğan in the movie "Reis", which tells about the life of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Özlem Balcı was not only limited to the fields of acting and production, but also took an active role in the political field. He applied as a candidate for Muğla parliamentary candidate from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) in the 2023 Turkish general elections and was at the top of the list.
Özlem Balcı was born on March 25, 1984 in Fethiye. He received his primary and secondary education in Fethiye. He started working while he was a student. In high school, he worked as a DJ on local channel F Radio & TV. He worked as a news anchor, copywriter and news reporter on the same channel. He worked as a presenter in the Özlem program in our village and as a director in the Sabah Şekerleri program.
He produced and hosted his own program called Özlemce. He worked as a news anchor on Şah TV, one of Muğla's local channels. He won awards for his various duties. In 2001, Çankaya University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. He got into the Department of Political Science and International Relations.
During the holiday periods, he worked in the fields of children's animation and public relations at a holiday village in Fethiye. He directed English theater plays in animation activities within the institution he worked for. After giving lectures in various fields, he left school in the third year of his university education and started receiving theater training at M.S.M.
Balcı started his acting career with small roles. In 2006, she stepped into television with the character of Makbule in the TV series Arka Sokaklar. In 2007-2008, she played the character "Aslı" in the TV series Doktorlar. In the same year, she played the character of Istanbul in the TV series Annem, the character "İnci" in the TV series Lipdan Kalbe, and the character "Özlem" in the TV series Hepsi1.
In 2008-2009, he took part in the TV series Akasya Durağı, Ece, Yalancı Romantik, Yol Dostim, Zülfikâr, İpsiz Recep, Ah Kalbim and Unutulmaz, respectively. During the same years, he made his first cinema experience with the movie Super Agent K9. In 2010, she played the character "Deniz" in the TV series Umut Yolcuları, and in 2011 she played "Elif Teacher" in the TV series Canan.
The following year, she played the character of "Asiye" in the movie Ateşin Düşlüğü Yer and the character of "Helin" in the movie Siya Mem-u Zin. Since 2013, she has been playing Yıldız, the wife of Kahveci Mesut, in the TV series Seksenler. He starred in the TV movie Rich and Poor in 2014 and in the movie Merdiven Baba in 2015.
In 2016, it was announced that she would portray Emine Erdoğan in the movie Reis, which tells about the life of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Productions in which he took part
- Eighties (2012) — Star
- Ece (2008) — Yelda Nurse
- Oh My Heart (2009)
- Reis (2017) — Emine Erdoğan
- My Exemplary Family (2012)
- Merdiven Baba (2015) — Joy
- Where the Fire Falls (2012) — Asiye
- Super Agent K9 (2008)
Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.
