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| Sevda Levent in the short film SUBMIT with Jihad Jay Reeves |
Since
we already talked about Sevda’s acting talents and her “IT” factor in the most
praiseful manner in earlier articles, perhaps we should catch everybody up on
what Sevda has achieved in her brief but sparkling career. As you may remember,
the lovely Sevda has a Turkish background and speaks fluently in English and
Turkish. She is also quite proficient in accents such as Australian, Irish,
Cockney/London, General & Southern American, New York- Jewish, Middle
Eastern and Eastern European, among others.
She
has gone through years of intensive acting classes and studied with some of the
best teachers in the business. She attended one of the best acting schools in
the UK, Rose Buford College, and she also went through the acting program at
RADA and the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. She also studied musical
theatre at the Guilford School of Acting. She can ride horses; she’s a wiz at
historical dancing from the 15th to the 17th centuries.
She can waltz with the best of them and is terrific at contemporary dance and
ballet. Stage combat? Don’t get in her way if she is armed. She can sing
beautifully (I’ve heard her), she swims like a fish and she can drive a car as
if she has been driving for years. (She actually has been driving for years).
Some
of the stage roles Ms. Levent has performed have been, Karla in Couples Therapy, Molly in The Call, Isabella in Win or Die, Beatrice in A View From The Bridge and
Mephistopheles in Doctor Faustus. Sevda
was also in several plays for the long-established actors’ and writers’ company
The Player-Playwrights and won The Best Actress of the Year Award for her
performances (twice!). This is the short list of what Sevda has done on the
stage. The list goes on and on.
In
television Sevda played Jane in Married
With Secrets for Discovery, Melissa
in Lodgers, Naz in The MehmeFemis, Sam in Flixborough and Sally in A& E (almost all for the BBC). She worked with Eastenders director Steve Finn on a short TV pilot series and then
he cast her in two of his short films. He had this to say: “I loved her work for me. She was always quick to pick up any notes I
gave her, and delivered a wonderful performance time after time. I would cast
her again in a heartbeat: I highly recommend her.”
Sevda
loves movies and during a summer break from school she worked as a production
assistant on the film Fast & Furious
6, a job which she loved. She has acted in numerous films including, The Bishop and the Beggar, Submit, Let Me Go, Fearmoth, Twenty8K,
Gulls, Fish Wish and The Outsider, to
name just a few. Sevda’s schedule has gotten even busier as she is in more and
more demand- she has two plays and two movies coming up in 2016. She is
planning to make the move to L.A in 2017.
Good
for her – and for us, we get to see her in more movies.
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