Meltem Jumbul is a wonderful Turkish actress and TV presenter, a Circassian by origin. In Russia, she is best known as the performer of the role of Fatma Sultan in the soap opera The Magnificent Century.
The early years and the beginning of acting
Meltem Jumbul was born in 1969 in the Turkish city of Izmir in the family of a bank employee Sedat Jumbul.
At thirteen, she moved to Istanbul. Here Meltem graduated from high school, and then the theater department of the University of Fine Arts. Mimara Sinan.
In 1993, Jumbul began working on TV and became the host of the reality show "Yukari Asagi." And in 1995 she made her debut in cinema - she starred in the films "Bay E" (1995) and "Böcek" (1995).
Jumbul first played the main role in the Turkish comedy Funny Pizza (1998). This was followed by several more successful works - the role of Emin in the Austrian drama "Born in Absurdistan" (1999) and the role of Zeyno in the popular Turkish TV series "Yilan Hikayesi" (1999-2002).
Further creativity
An important milestone in the career of Jumbul was the painting "The Fall of Abdulhamit" (2002). For her role in it, the actress received the Golden Antalya International Antalya Film Festival award. This picture itself, by the way, received the main prize of the Berlin film festival - the Golden Bear.
In 2004, the Eurovision Song Contest was held in Turkey. And one of its leaders was just Meltem Jumbul. For three days, she, along with her partner Korhan Abay, presented performers from different countries and their competitive compositions.
In addition, in 2004, Meltem starred in the German film “The Head on the Wall” about the life of Turkish immigrants (directed by Fatih Akin). This film received high ratings from viewers and a good box office not only in Europe, but also, for example, in the USA.
The actress got even more famous after filming in the film "Mental Wound" (2005). She brilliantly played here a girl named Dunya, who is obsessively pursued by her ex-husband. As a result, this role brought the actress the French FIPRESCI Prize.
In the same 2005, Jumbul went to the United States, where she studied under Eric Morris - one of the best acting teachers in the world. And when she returned, she herself began working with students using Morris methods in one of Istanbul's universities.
Further, the actress starred in several more films. Among them are "Beautiful Life" (2008), "Alphabet Killer" (2008), "Tell Me God" (2011), "Labyrinth" (2011).
The success of Meltem Jumbul, of course, should also be attributed to her appearance in the fourth season of the series “The Magnificent Century” (episodes 104–139), which was broadcast for the first time from September 2013 to June 2014 on the Turkish channel “Star TV”. Here, the audience saw the actress in the image of the influential Fatma Sultan (this heroine, by the way, has a real prototype in history). In the series Fatma is presented as a loving and cheerful woman, "mistress of pleasures and entertainment." It is known that for filming in "The Magnificent Century, " Jumbul received fairly large fees - 30, 000 Turkish liras (at the current rate this is more than 320, 000 rubles) per series.
In 2015, the actress starred in the comedy "You Burned Me" as Leila. And while this is her last movie role. Today, Meltem Jumbul pays more attention to his own theater, which was organized by her not so long ago. In this theater, she also performs the duties of a director of performances.
