Gizem Erdogan

Acting

Gizem Erdogan

Born 1987-04-30 · Högsbo, Gothenburg, Göteborgs och Bohus län, Sweden [now Västra Götalands län, Sweden]

Gizem Suna Kling Erdogan, born April 30, 1987 in Högsbo, is a Swedish actor of Turkish descent. She studied at the theater school in Malmö in 2012-2015. She has participated in performances at the Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm and is part of the Göteborg Stadsteater's permanent ensemble, where she has played Alice in the play Alice in Wonderland, among other things. In 2015, she made her feature film debut in Svenskjävel. For her role in Kalifat, she won the award for Actress of the Year in a TV Production at the Kristallen Awards 2020. She was also nominated for Actress of the Year at the Kristallen Awards in 2021 for her role as Leah in The Thin Blue Line. She continues to expand her range with diverse projects, including the horror film Hemmet and the thriller series Vaka.

Acting credits

The Storm poster
NR

Filip is turning 45, and has invited his closest friends for dinner at his and his wife's lavish and newly bought farm estate up north in Sweden. What they don't know is that a ferocious storm is on its way and that they'll be trapped together. Their polished acts fall, and an unfiltered meltdown starts. When the panic starts to creep in and they all realise the seriousness of the situation, the farm starts to shrink, secrets spill out, and unexpected feelings take shape.

The Storm

2026

Handbook for Superheroes poster
5.0

Ten-year-old Lisa, bullied in the decaying town of Rosenhill, finds a book that teaches her to become a superhero. As "Red Mask," she must face a ruthless crime boss and her fears, learning that true heroism lies in compassion and courage.

Handbook for Superheroes

2025

The Home poster
5.9

Many years after leaving the small town behind, Joel returns to move his mother Monika, a home for the elderly struggling with dementia. However, Monika’s health takes a turn for the worse soon after her arrival. She experiences terrifying visions of her late husband, Joel’s abusive father, and begins exhibiting violent behavior. Joel begins to believe that something malevolent and supernatural has taken control of his mother. But with his own history of substance abuse and mental instability, can he trust his own perceptions? As Monika’s memories fade, Joel must confront the demons of his own past, dredged up by his return to the home where he grew up.

The Home

2025

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NR

It's summer and a heat wave has descended on the city. Vera lives with her egocentric boyfriend. Next door, Tove lives with her mother who collects sounds. A wordless drama about being trapped, and about the possibility of breaking free.

Heat Wave

2012

Hamlet på Elverket poster
NR

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Hamlet på Elverket

2026

My Life as a Comedian poster
5.3

Juha, 12, class clown in the suburb of Sävbyholm, Sweden. To be funny is the only thing he is good at and all he wants is to fit in the social peckingorder at school. When Juha as an adult performs the show – My Life As A Comedian- to sold out theatres and tells the horrid and funny stories from his childhood to the audience he gets an unexpected visit from an old friend from school which makes him return to Sävbyholm and deal with his past.

My Life as a Comedian

2019

The Nursing Home poster
NR

Joel reluctantly returns to his childhood home to help his mother Monika, who has suffered a severe stroke and was clinically dead for minutes. Monika is unrecognizable and Joel becomes convinced that something has followed her back from the other side.

The Nursing Home

2026

Beyond Dreams poster
6.0

Mirja must find her place after serving jail time. When she gets a job as a hotel cleaner she starts living a double life. She's torn between her sick mother and her old group of friends, who have always been her real family.

Beyond Dreams

2017

Underdog poster
6.1

Dino is 23 and dreams of a different life. She has left the mass unemployment of the Swedish provinces in search of happiness in nouveau-riche Oslo just like hundreds of thousands of other young Swedish people. But her new life has reached a deadlock. Dino finds herself stuck in a destructive sprial of temporary jobs, financial difficulties and wild partying. When she starts an extra job as as a housekeeper in a Norwegian middle-class home, she is thrown into a reality very far from her own.

Underdog

2015

Sorry Not Sorry poster
9.0

Feride is on the way home after a party when she meets a group of singing young men in a wooden boat. When the boat runs into trouble they get unexpected help from Feride who, without her consent, is taken along on their nocturnal ride in Stockholm.

Sorry Not Sorry

2019

The Discomfort Has to Be Compensated poster
NR

A group of old friends reunite for an evening. Something ugly is bubbling up to the surface.

The Discomfort Has to Be Compensated

2016