Deniz Uğur

Born

17 October 1973 (aged 53)

Place of birth

Ankara

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 series

Deniz Uğur was born on 17 October 1973 in Ankara. Her mother is the ballerina Suna Uğur and her father is the opera singer Mete Uğur, and she is the only child of the family. At the Istanbul University State Conservatory she first completed the ballet department, then moved to the theater department and graduated in 1995.

She began her professional stage life while still a student at the Kenter Theater, in the play Görünmeyen Dostlar, in which she had a lead role together with Şükran Güngör and Kadriye Kenter. In 1996 she acted with Nevra Serezli and Cihan Ünal in the French comedy Çetin Ceviz. For her role in the film Bir Erkeğin Anatomisi she was named promising new actress at the 9th Ankara Film Festival in 1997.

On television she portrayed the characters Ceylan in Sahte Prenses, Sanem İlhanlı in Adını Feriha Koydum and Gülşah Taşdelen in Umutsuz Ev Kadınları; she took the roles of Emel Gökdemir in İnsanlık Suçu and Hümeyra Aydan in Aynı Yağmur Altında. After a long break, in 2014 she returned to the stage with the musical Huysuz, in which she co-starred with Engin Alkan, and was nominated for the Afife Theater Awards; in 2015 she acted in the play Guguk Kuşu with Oktay Kaynarca.

Besides acting, she also writes columns, song lyrics, novels and screenplays.

Uğur played Seher Yılmaz in Avşar Film's 2019 series Zalim İstanbul.