Cansel Elçin is a film actor

Actor

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Elçin was born in Izmir

Izmir

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, Turkey

Turkey

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, but his family moved to France when he was 9 years old. He has grown up trilingually and can speak French

French language

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, English

English language

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 and Turkish

Turkish language

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. He studied in the Ecole Florent in Paris

Paris

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 and has French citizenship.

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Harem suaré	Journaliste
2000	Route de nuit	Le medecin de garde
	Coeur à l'ouvrage, Le	Actor (Hamlet)
2001	Art (délicat) de la séduction, L	Designer 4	aka Art (délicat) de la séduction, L' (International: English title)
2002	Crim', La	Vincent Hartmann
	A+ Pollux A+ Pollux A+ Pollux is a film by Luc Pagès, released in 2002. It is an adaptation of a novel by Philippe Jaenada, Le Chameau sauvage, which won the Prix de Flore in 1997.-Synopsis:...	A Friend
2005	Tu vas rire, mais je te quitte
	Navarro	Le chirurgien
2006	Kirik kanatlar	Cemal
	Équilibre de la terreur, L	Tarek
	Küçük kiyamet	Zeki	aka The Little Apocalypse (International: English title: festival title)
2008	120 120 (2008 film) 120 is a 2008 Turkish war film directed by Murat Saraçoğlu and Özhan Eren based on the true story of 120 children who died in 1915 carrying ammunition for the Battle of Sarıkamış against the Russians during World War I...	Süleyman
	Hatirla sevgili	Ahmet	aka Remember Dear Beloved (International: English title)
2010	Gönülçelen	Murat

Awards

Elçin won the Best Male TV Actor Award for his role in "Hatirla Sevgili", at Beykent University

Beykent University

Beykent University is a private university in Istanbul, Turkey, teaching in English. The typical enrolment is 15,000 students.It has four faculties comprising 28 academic departments in the fields of Engineering and Architecture, Fine Arts, Science, Economics and Administrative Sciences; a school...

Faculty of Communations, 2008 Communation Awards; which honors the year's bests as voted by the students.

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