Nurgül Yeşilçay

Born

26 March 1976 (aged 50)

Place of birth

Afyonkarahisar

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie

Nurgül Yeşilçay was born on 26 March 1976 in Afyonkarahisar. She spent her middle and high school years in Izmir and completed her higher education in 2001 in the theater department of Anadolu University in Eskişehir.

While a university student, she stepped into television with the role of Gülsüm in the series İkinci Bahar, in which Şener Şen and Türkan Şoray shared the leads; in 2002 she moved to cinema with Mumya Firarda. She became known to wide audiences with her roles as Bahar Karadağ in Asmalı Konak, Şerbet in Melekler Adası and Ezo in Ezo Gelin. In cinema, she played Ayten Öztürk in the film Yaşamın Kıyısında.

In later years she acted in the series Aşk ve Ceza and Paramparça, played Kösem Sultan in Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem, and the title character in Gülperi. In 2007 she served as a jury member at the 31st International Cairo Film Festival, and in 2008 in the national competition section of the 27th International Istanbul Film Festival.

Yeşilçay played Yasemin in Avşar Film's 2016 film İkinci Şans.