Ayşen Gruda

Born

22 August 1944

Place of birth

Yeşilköy

Died

23 January 2019 (aged 74)

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 series

Ayşen Gruda was born on 22 August 1944 in the Yeşilköy district of Istanbul. Her sister Ayten Erman and her brother Ayben Erman were also actors. She began her professional stage career in Tevfik Bilge's touring theater; she then performed at the Ankara Meydan Sahnesi, at Devekuşu Kabare and at the Nisa Serezli-Tolga Aşkıner Tiyatrosu. She also appeared in the musicals Mum Söndü, Hababam Sınıfı Müzikali and Yedi Kocalı Hürmüz.

The Nahide Şerbet character she brought to life on screen earned her the nickname Domates Güzeli (the Tomato Beauty), and this nickname was mentioned alongside her name throughout her career. From the mid-1970s she came to the fore in cinema with the comedies Ertem Eğilmez made for Arzu Film. With the roles of Tellioğlu Zekiye in Tosun Paşa, Emine in Süt Kardeşler, Nilgün in Neşeli Günler and Hacer in Çöpçüler Kralı, she took her place in Yeşilçam's lasting comedy casts. She acted in more than a hundred films.

She did not give up acting in later periods either; she played Sabriye Kaygısız in the long-running series Kaygısızlar and continued to appear on stage in theater and musical projects. She voiced the landlady Hasene in the animation Kötü Kedi Şerafettin. Ayşen Gruda died on 23 January 2019 in Istanbul.

Gruda played Dursun in Avşar Film's 2003 series Sultan Makamı.