Nazan Kesal

Born

28 March 1969 (aged 57)

Place of birth

Köprübaşı

On Avşar Film

appeared in 2 series

Nazan Kesal was born on 28 March 1969 in the Köprübaşı district of Manisa. She spent her school years in Manisa and in 1991 graduated from the theater acting department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Dokuz Eylül University. She later earned a master's degree in cinema-television at Beykent University.

After graduating she moved to Istanbul; she appeared on stage with the Ankara Sanatevi Tiyatrosu, Tiyatro Ayna and Tiyatro İstanbul companies. Between 1996 and 2004 she worked at the Diyarbakır State Theater as both actress and director and staged Orhan Asena's play Öç. In 2004 she was assigned to the Bursa State Theater; there she acted in the plays Bernarda Alba'nın Evi and Hitit Güneşi.

In cinema, she appeared in the films Uzak and İklimler, and also acted in Delibal and Kardeşim Benim. On television, after the role of Meryem Toptaş in Kayıp Şehir, she played the character Sevda Çağlayan in Bir Zamanlar Çukurova; she was also in the casts of the series Halka and Kübra.

Kesal played Fazilet Çamkıran in Fazilet Hanım ve Kızları and Üftade Katiboğlu in Bugünün Saraylısı, all Avşar Film productions.