Wilma Elles
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Wilma Elles is a German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 actress.

Biography

Elles has two brothers and two sisters. Her father and mother are in the engineering distribution business and own the company Ellesos.
She graduaded from school with Abitur in French and German at the bilingual Burgau-Gymnasium in Düren. Since the age of 10 she engaged in school theatre plays and took acting and dance classes. She also studies at the University of Cologne.

One of her first small roles Elles played in the German TV production Die Gustloff of Joseph Vilsmaier. Little later she got her first leading roles as Kika in the movie Das Weinen davor by Gökhan Sayim, which was screened at German cinema in summer 2010, Maria in Turk Usulu of Mehmet Günes and Lilly in the production Fahr zur Hölle by Joachim Mais with Christine Kaufmann and Martin Semmelrogge. She also performed on stage in the theatre Theater im Hof in Cologne.

Then in 2010 she got an offer for the Turkish TV series Öyle bir gecer zaman ki for one of the lead characters, the Dutch new wife Caroline of the former married and father of four children Captain Ali and moved to Istanbul.

As she couldn`t speak Turkish at all the beginning of the shootings, she just memorized the vocals of her lines for her play until she learned more Turkish.

The series got many awards and broke several viewer records with a continuous weekly market share of 50- 60 % and an average of 25- 30 million viewers each week in Turkey and more in the Turkish migration countries.

Elles was awarded Best Actress at the European Quality Awards 2011 and was chosen the meanest character of Turkish TV in 2011 by 48,6 % of the Turkish population(iVillage).

In the summer break she embodied an Australian woman in the cinema movie Canakalle Cocuklari from Sinan Cetin and a Frensh character in the movie "El Yazisi", which script was awarded at the Altin Portakal Film Festival.

Acutally she working on the second season of Öyle bir gecer zaman ki.

Elles invented the "Self-Stirring-Pot".

Filmography

Films by title, with year, and role/company:
  • Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman ki
    Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman Ki
    Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman Ki is a Turkish drama television series broadcast by Kanal D.- Plot :The series is set in the 1960s and revolves around the Akarsu family. Ali Akarsu is the patriarch of the family and he works as a seaman and the captain of a ship...

    , 2010- 2011, Caroline
  • Canakalle Cocuklari, 2011, Catherine, Plato Film, Cinema-movie
  • El Yazisi, 2011, Julie, Cinema-movie"
  • Ihr mich auch (You and Me Both), 2010, Tina Schulz, ZDF-Movie
  • Fahr zur Hölle, 2010, Lilly
  • Das Ding (The Thing), 2010, Sony Pictures
  • Türk Usulü, 2008, Maria
  • Komissar Stolberg, 2007, Petra Schnuck
  • Das Weinen davor, 2007, Kika
  • Soko Köln
    SOKO Köln
    SOKO Köln is a German television series....

    , 2007, Frau Reese
  • Hafen der Hoffnung- Die Gustloff (Harbor of Hope), 2007, Lieselotte, ZDF-Movie
  • Gameshow Marathon
    Gameshow Marathon
    Gameshow Marathon is an American television program which aired on CBS from May 31, 2006 to June 29, 2006. It is based on the UK series Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon which aired on ITV in 2005....

    , 2007, Glücksfee
  • Das Spielzeug, 2007, Van
  • Cauliflower Power, 2007, Caulie, Daulie, Anne
  • Heilige Konflikte (Holy Conflict), 2007, Schwester Katharina
  • Zeltgeflüster, 2007, Fiona
  • Kill or be killed
    Kill or Be Killed
    Kill or Be Killed is the seventh studio album by American band Biohazard.-Track listing:#"Never Forgive Never Forget" – 4:13#"Kill or Be Killed" – 2:39#"Heads Kicked In" – 4:38#"Beaten Senseless" – 2:08#"Make My Stand" – 2:37...

    , 2007, Sibyll
  • Speak my language, 2006, Natascha
  • Ich und die Anderen (I and the Others), 2006, Nicky
  • Eine traumhafte Beziehung 2005, Susanne
  • Das Puppenspiel (The Puppy Game), 2005, Puppy

Theatre

  • Hänsel und Gretel
    Hänsel und Gretel
    Hansel and Gretel is an opera by nineteenth-century composer Engelbert Humperdinck, who described it as a Märchenoper . The libretto was written by Humperdinck's sister, Adelheid Wette, based on the Grimm brothers' fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel"...

    , 2010, Hexe
  • Weihnachten in Transilvanien (Christmas in Transylvania), 2009, Venetia
  • Die Ratten
    Die Ratten
    Die Ratten is a 1955 West German drama film directed by Robert Siodmak. It is an adaptation of the play by Gerhart Hauptmann which transferred the story in the early fifties, shortly after the Second World War...

    , 2006, Frau John
  • Woyzeck, 2006, Marie
  • Yard Girls, 2006, Bo
  • Die Zoogeschichte (The Zoo Story), 2004, Jerry
  • Antigone
    Antigone
    In Greek mythology, Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Oedipus' mother. The name may be taken to mean "unbending", coming from "anti-" and "-gon / -gony" , but has also been suggested to mean "opposed to motherhood", "in place of a mother", or "anti-generative", based from the root...

    , 2004 Antigone
  • Das Zieglein..., 2003, Hapeangul
  • Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen, 2003, Mortimer
  • Bird Cage, 2003, Agador
  • Top Dogs, 2003, Krause
  • Das Hohelied, 2002, Sie
  • Biedermann ... Brandstifter, 2002, Babette

Weblinks

  • http://www.whosdatedwho.com/tpx_7523805/tempo-magazine-turkey-october-2011/
  • http://www.kanald.com.tr/oylebirgecerzamanki
  • http://www.vougeturkiye.com/wilma-elles-vogue-turkiye-icin-objektif-karsisina-gecti.html
  • http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/beitrag/video/1476310/Wilma-Elles-Durchbruch-am-Bosporus#/beitrag/video/1476310/Wilma-Elles-Durchbruch-am-Bosporus
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