İrem Sultan Cengiz

İrem Sultan Cengiz — Biography

İrem Sultan Cengiz is a stage-trained actress whom television viewers know as Selda in the ATV series Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz. Besides many stage plays she has also appeared in film and television, and from 2015 she worked as an actress with the Bakırköy Municipal Theaters.

Having completed primary and middle school in Kızıltepe, in Mardin province, she trained in the theater department of the Istanbul University State Conservatory. Her first screen work came in 2009 with the series Aşk Bir Hayal, and the following year she appeared in the long-running police drama Arka Sokaklar. 2015 was her busiest year: as she began performing with the municipal theater in Bakırköy, she first acted in Şehrin Melekleri and then joined the cast of Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz, led by Oktay Kaynarca and Deniz Çakır.

Her character in that series, Selda, is Ekrem's daughter: a bright young woman who returns home for a while with her father after finishing school abroad and wins people over with her smile. Innocent as she looks, she carries the traits of her family, and the character was written as an alluring figure who draws people after her and brings ruin in her wake. The role introduced Cengiz to a wide audience.