Bülent Ersoy

Bülent Ersoy was born on Jun 09, 1952 in Turkey. Bülent Ersoy's big-screen debut came with Söhretin Sonu directed by Orhan Aksoy in 1981. Bülent Ersoy is known for Before Snowfall directed by Hisham Zaman, Abdullah Taher stars as Siyar and Suzan Ilir as Evin. Bülent Ersoy has got 2 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Bülent Ersoy achieved is Pantene Golden Butterfly Awards. The upcoming new movie Bülent Ersoy plays is Before Snowfall which will be released on Jan 14, 2013.

Bulent was already a popular singer in Turkey when he travelled to England to have a sex change in 1981, becoming a woman yet retaining the traditionally male birth name of Bulent. Under a crackdown on "social deviance" by then Turkish leader Kenan Evren, Bulent was banned from public performances and was also refused a court petition to have her sex re-classfied as female. Ersoy left entertainment in protest until 1988, when changes in the Turkish legal code allowed for MtoF transsexuals to be legally classfied as women. Bulent returned to recording, and actually became even more popular as a female vocalist than she had been as a man.