Sevil Akı Saner was born on September 9, 1971 in Erzurum. After completing his primary, secondary and high school education in Izmit, he graduated from Trakya University, Department of Business Administration between 1989 and 1991. Then, in 1991, he enrolled in Müjdat Gezen Art Center Theater Department and graduated in 1995.
Immediately after his graduation, in the 1996-1997 season, he took the stage in the play "I Spit Out" in the theater group of the Humor Standards Institute Institution, of which he was one of the founders. In the next season, in 1997-1998, he took on a role in the musical "Kadı" of the Istanbul State Theatre, and then appeared in Ortaoyuncular for three seasons.
He also worked actively at Akbank Children's Theater since 1996; In 2000, he joined the Istanbul City Theater. Some of the plays he performed in during this period include Uğur Uludağ's "Tükürür Kaçarım" (1996), Ülkü Tamer's "Kadı" (1997), Ferhan Şensoy's "It's Expensive to Live Without Money" and "Very Tuhaf Investigation" (both 1997), Haldun Taner's "Cabaret" (1997), Erol Günaydın's "If I Learn Elma, Get Out" (1999), Karl Georg Büchner's "Woyzeck" (2000), Can Doğan's "Give Peace a Chance" (2000), Işıl Kasapoğlu's "Once Upon a Time" (2001), Rızayev Anar's "Sixth Floor of a Five-Storey Building" (2002), Haşmet Zeybek's "Wedding or Suitcase" (2002), Zeynep Avcı's "Gılgameş" (2003), Güngör Dilmen's "I Anatolia" (2004), Nazım Hikmet's "Ferhad ile Şirin" (2006), Federico García Lorca's "Bernarda Alba's House" (2007), Musahipzade Celal's "The Master of Istanbul" (2008), Murathan Mungan's "Garden for Four" (2010), Hagop Baronyan's "Oriental Dentist" (2011), Javier Daulte, Alejandro Tantanian and Rafael Spregelburd's joint work "Mother's Murder List" (2012), Cem Uslu's "Advice" (2013), Tennessee Williams' "Glass Animal Collection" (2014), Molière's He took part in projects such as “Hypochondriac” (2019), Albert Camus's “The Plague” (2021) and Gülten Akın's “Istanbul Meets Poetry: I Was Responsible for the Daffodil” (2023).
In addition to the theater stage, Sevil Akı Saner also took on various roles in cinema and television productions, and made her voice heard in many projects as a voice actor. In the advertising world, he increased his recognition by taking part in the commercial especially prepared for Akbank.
Sevil Akı Saner (b. September 9, 1971, Erzurum) is a Turkish theatre, TV series and film actress and voice artist.
He was born on September 9, 1971 in Erzurum. He completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Izmit. After graduating from Trakya University, Department of Business Administration between 1989 and 1991, he entered the Theater Department of Müjdat Gezen Art Center in 1991 and graduated in 1995. In the 1996-1997 season, he took part in the play "Spit Out" with the theater group of the Humor Standards Institute Institution, of which he was one of the founders.
After taking part in the "Kadı" Musical of the Istanbul State Theater in the 1997-1998 season, he joined Ortaoyuncular for three seasons. He has also worked at Akbank Children's Theater since 1996. He joined the Istanbul City Theater in 2000. In addition to theater acting, he worked in many cinema, television, voice-overs and commercials (Akbank commercial).
Productions in which he took part
He took part in a total of 18 productions; 12 of the most well-known are listed.
- Established: Osman (2019) — Saadet Hatun
- La Dolce Vita (2001) — Rebecca
- Underground (2026) — Azize Habban
- A Bandit Cannot Rule the World (2015) — Emine
- Pilgrim (2006)
- I Cannot Fit in This World (2022) — Zeliha
- Expatriates (1996)
- Destan (2021) — Akçuray
- My Mother is an Angel (2008)
- Sweet Things (2017)
- Nadide Hayat (2015) — Hoca
- Dream (2016)
Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.
