Saadet Aksoy

Saadet Aksoy (born 29 August 1983) is a Turkish-born actress, who received critical acclaim with her portrayal of Aska, a red-haired punk trumpet player in Italian actor-director Sergio Castellittos film Twice Born, in which she co-starred with Penélope Cruz and Emile Hirsch. Christy Lemire described her as the striking Saadet Aksoy in her Twice Born review, and film critic David Rooney stated, Saadet Aksoy brings a subdued fieriness to her scenes as a Bosnian woman. on The Hollywood Reporter. In his article on Variety, Boyd Van Hoeij wrote, Turkish thesp Saadet Aksoy impresses in a supporting role as a spunky Yugoslav local. about her performance in Twice Born.Sergio Castellitto explained his first encounter with Aksoy in an article on Vogue Turkey with these words: Saadet, the first time I met you it was through the internet. I had accidentally fallen on a movie trailer. I actually don’t remember anything of that trailer, of that movie. Yet I remember that I saw a woman turning her head abruptly to the camera, her blue eyes burning everything in that framing, blasting the reverse shot.Saadet Aksoy has been in the juries of such film festivals as Cairo International Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival and Istanbul Film Festival. She became the spokesperson for LOreal Paris in Turkey in the year 2013.

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