İlayda Elif Elhih

İlayda Elif Elhih
EducationPera Güzel Sanatlar Lisesi
Kadir Has University
OccupationActor
Years active2020–present
Awards40th Best Female Actor (2021)

İlayda Elif Elhih is a Turkish film actress and theatrologist.

Life and career

İlayda Elif Elhih studied theater in high school and graduated from Pera Fine Arts High School.[1] She graduated from Kadir Has University in 2018. In her podcast with Üretim Kaydı, Elhih mentioned that she had taken her steps in a way that she already knew that she wanted back in her high school years and also mentioned the support of her family.[2]

She won the "Best Actress" award at the 40th International Istanbul Film Festival with her first film Sardunya.[3] Elhih could not attend the award ceremony and learned that she had won this award through the producer of the film, Çağıl Bocut.[2]

Elhih said in an interview, "I want to do work that doesn't take the mind of the audience lightly."[4]

Filmography

Film

Year Film Title Character
2020 Sardunya Defne

TV show

Year Show Title Character
2020–2021 Çukur Saliha

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Project Result
2021 40th Istanbul International Film Festival Best Actress Sardunya Won

Sardunya and İlayda Elif Elhih

The director of the film, Çağıl Bocut, attended classes of the conservatory in the search for the character Defne, where he made observations and met İlayda Elhih. Afterwards, İlayda gave an audition at Bocut's request and was included in the Sardunya movie in 2016 with the character of Defne.[2]

Elhih did not have a driver's license before the Sardunya film and she got a driver's license for the film.[2]

Elhih contributed to the script of Sardunya. Cagil Bocut mentioned that father-son and father-daughter dynamics are different from each other and that for Defne, the protagonist of the movie who is close in age to Ilayda, he consulted Ilayda a lot.[5]

Sources

  1. ^ "İlayda Elif Elhih: İyi bir şey üretmek tüm yorgunluğu unutturuyor". www.hurriyet.com.tr (in Turkish). 14 August 2021. Archived from the original on 17 April 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d "Bir Sardunya'dan ne öğrenirsin?". Üretim Kaydı – Aposto!. Archived from the original on 9 September 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  3. ^ "40 Uluslararası İstanbul Film Festivali Kazananları". İKSV Film Festivali Ödüller (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 10 October 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  4. ^ "Çağıl Bocut: Katmanlı aile hikayeleri anlatmayı seviyorum". aksam.com.tr (in Turkish). 12 February 2022. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  5. ^ "Sardunya (2020): Yönetmen Çağıl Bocut ile Söyleşi – Röportaj, Sinema Yazıları". Fil'm Hafızası (in Turkish). 2 December 2021. Archived from the original on 13 January 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.