Cem Yılmaz

Known for ActingBorn 1973-04-23 (age 53)Istanbul, Turkey

While studying at the Department of Tourism and Hotel Management of Bogazici University, he started drawing comics for the Turkish humor magazine Leman. In August 1995 he did his first stand-up comedy show in "Leman Culture Center" performing with no serious career intentions as a comedian. However, after the positive response of the audience, he continued his show to attract larger crowds in Besiktas Cultural Center where he has appeared in over a thousand stand-up comedy shows since, becoming so popular that tickets have sold for 250TL (approx. US$140). His movie career started in 1998 with a co-starring role in the comedy Everything's Gonna Be Great (1998), directed by Ömer Vargi, and continued with a role in Vizontele (2001), directed by Yilmaz Erdogan and Ömer Faruk Sorak. He achieved his greatest success by starring in and writing big-budget science-fiction parody G.O.R.A. (2004), also directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak, which despite spending several years in production because of financial and other technical problems became a box-office hit and described by Rekin Teksoy as a strong sign that showed that popular cinema was successful in appealing to wide audiences. He maintained this success with a starring role in the comedy feature movie Magic Carpet Ride (2005) AKA 'Magic Carpet Ride', also directed by Yilmaz Erdogan, for which he won Best Supporting Actor at the 11th Sadri Alisik Awards, and his directorial debut with The Magician (2006), co-directed by Ali Taner Baltaci, for which he won Best Actor at the 34th Brussels International Independent Film Festival and 12th Sadri Alisik Awards. He has since repeated his box office success with a sequel to G.O.R.A. (2004) called A.R.O.G (2008), also co-directed by Ali Taner Baltaci, and comedy Western parody called Yahsi Bati - The Ottoman Cowboys (2009), directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak. That same year, he co-starred, alongside veteran actor Sener Sen, in the police drama Hunting Season (2010), written and directed by Yavuz Turgul, and made a special appearance in drama Zefir (2010), written and directed by Belma Bas. After two years he also acted in Ferzan Özpetek's A Magnificent Haunting (2012). After he filmed his last stand-up comedy show CM101MMXI Fundamentals (2013) directed by Murat Dündar, he announced that for the next few years he will stop his stand-up comedy shows to have a rest. Along his professional career, he has won numerous awards and appeared in more than 4000 stand-up comedy shows, took part in 10 movies and contributed as a dubbing performer in 4 movies.Read more

Movies & web series

CM101MMXI Fundamentals (2013) Extralar

CMYLMZ

CM101MMXI Fundamentals

Cem Yılmaz: One Taste One Texture

Mazhar Alanson İle Misafir

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Bir Tat Bir Doku: Millennium

The European Side

Everything's Gonna Be Great

Bifo & CMYLMZ

Phi

TOLGSHOW

G.O.R.A.

Vizontele

Iftar Soda

My Dear Family

CMYLMZ: Questions & Answers

Hunting Season

A.R.O.G

Kavur

Yahşi Batı

The Magician

The Life and Movies of Erşan Kuneri

The Water Diviner

Magic Carpet Ride

Coming Soon

CMXXIV

Comidark Films: In Between

A Magnificent Haunting

Arif V 216: They Made It, But How?

Comidark Films 2: Insane

Do Not Disturb

Arif V 216

Cem Yılmaz: Diamond Elite Platinum Plus

Tonight with İbrahim Selim

Pembe ve Mavi

Comidark Films 2: The Pawn

Deli Aşk

Comidark Films: The Getaway

Ali Baba and the 7 Dwarfs

GORA 4 GORA

10 Dost 10 Tabak

Melis İşiten ile Zaten Şov

PowerTürk Müzik Ödülleri

Kral Türkiye Müzik Ödülleri

Erol Evgin Show

Laf Lafı Açıyor

Golden Butterfly Awards