
Ebru Ceylan
Ebru Ceylan, born in Ankara in 1976, is a Turkish photographer, actress, and screenwriter, best known for her close and ongoing artistic collaboration with her husband, director Nuri Bilge Ceylan. After starring alongside him in the film *İklimler* (Climates, 2006), she took on a crucial role as a co-screenwriter for many of his most significant works. She has contributed to the screenplays of internationally acclaimed films such as *Üç Maymun* (Three Monkeys, 2008), *Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da* (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, 2011), and *Kış Uykusu* (Winter Sleep, 2014), which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Her collaboration continued with *Ahlat Ağacı* (The Wild Pear Tree, 2018) and *Kuru Otlar Üstüne* (About Dry Grasses, 2023). Her work, often focusing on complex psychological dynamics and moral dilemmas, has been fundamental to the critical success of the films, blending her visual sensibility as a photographer with the narrative depth required by auteur cinema.
