Fahriye Evcen

Born

4 June 1986 (aged 40)

Place of birth

Solingen

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie

Fahriye Evcen was born on 4 June 1986 in the German city of Solingen. On her mother's side she comes from a Circassian family, and on her father's side from a family of Kavala immigrants. While studying sociology at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, she interrupted her studies after receiving offers for television series and settled in Istanbul; she later graduated from the History Department of Boğaziçi University.

While watching a television program as a spectator in Turkey, she was introduced to producer İbrahim Mertoğlu and soon took on the role of Necla in the series Yaprak Dökümü. She played her first leading role in cinema in the film Cennet, released in 2008; in the same year she also had the lead in Aşk Tutulması.

She played Zeynep Karaman in Yalancı Bahar and Mehpare in Veda. She reached a wide audience with the role of Feride in the series Çalıkuşu, which began in 2013. She then played Murka in Kurt Seyit ve Şura and appeared in the film Aşk Sana Benzer. The series Ölene Kadar and the role of Akça Hatun in Alparslan: Büyük Selçuklu are also part of her television career.

Evcen played Leyla in Avşar Film's 2012 film Evim Sensin.