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Location: Bucharest, Romania
Contact: duruyucel@hotmail.com | +40750468746 | +905307613311
Height: 5′ 3” (160 cm)
Hair: long, black
Eyes: brown
Film Credits:
- Pure (feature film in pre-production) – playing Pure (starring)
- We Put the World to Sleep (2025 feature film) – starring / producer / writer
- Elif (2014 TV series) – playing University Student (supporting)
- Cost of Love (Aşkın Bedeli) (2014 TV series) – playing Nurse (supporting)
- Grandpas Know Best (2012 short film) – playing Party Girl – Cannes Short Film Corner
Other Works:
- Awards Jury member at the FilmQuest Film Festival in the US (2021-present)
- Judge at the World Monologue Film Festival and World Monologue Games in Australia
- Demo of 10 classical jazz songs I sang and I recorded in English
- “Becoming A Rhinoceros 2.014” theatre play (The Studio Players, 2014) – supporting role – directed by Şahika Tekand – performed at Istanbul Theatre Festival, ENKA Culture and Art Meetings, Sevgi Gönül Centre of Culture
Education:
- Acting and Art Education at The Studio Players in Istanbul, Turkey (2011-2014)
- Bachelor’s degree in English-Turkish Interpretation and Translation at the Izmir University of Economics in Turkey (2011)
- Elocution lessons (in Turkish) for dubbing/voice-over
Competences & Skills:
Acting, Singing (Jazz), Improvisation, Screenwriting, Theatre, Swimming, Dancing, Driving, Dubbing/Voice-over, English-Turkish Interpretation & Translation
Languages:
English (fluent), Turkish (native), Romanian (conversational), Spanish (limited)
Commercials:
- Photo Shoot for Automative Software Development (2025)
- Kuveyt Turk Bank (2017)
- Turkish Marine Environment Protection Association “Deniz Temiz TURMEPA” (2016) – social awareness campaign
- Clear, Valentine’s Game (2016) – shampoo brand’s sponsorship commercial
- MS disease (2015) – social awareness campaign
- AFS, Manufacturer of HVAC Products (2015)
Interpretation & Translation:
- 2015: Bosphorus International Film Festival – Guide and interpreter for ‘’YOI’’ jury
- 2015: 34th İstanbul Film Festival – Voluntary guide for director Michael Sturminger
- 2015: Head&Shoulders Commercial Shoot – Simultaneous and Consecutive Interpretation and hosting the actors and directors
- 2015: New York Film Academy’s Filmmaking workshop of Istanbul Media Academy – Consecutive Interpretation for workshops, video translation and hosting the teachers (Gilbert Shilton, Abe Heisler, Hilarion Banks, Kelly Gardner from NYFA)
- 2014: International Bosphorus Film Festival – Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation and hosting guests including directors, producers, actors and other esteemed ones such as famous acting coach Ivana Chubbuck and the late Hollywood Foreign Press Association President Lorenzo Soria
- 2014: Translation of the play “A Hunger Suite” by the English theatre ensemble Clockfire Theatre Company
- 2012-2013: Lucia Oskerova (a Canadian model and actress) – personal interpreter, translator and Turkish speaking teacher
- 2012: At Uniact Studio, consecutive and simultaneous interpretation to (both for actors and business people) Anthony Vincent Bova, during “Executive Communication Seminar”
- 2011: “The First International Pilates and Fitness Training Programmes” – American pilates trainer; Tracey Mallett
- 2009: Archival translation for Turkish Naval Forces

