Şebnem Bozoklu

Born

20 August 1979 (aged 47)

Place of birth

Istanbul

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie

Şebnem Bozoklu was born in 1979 in Istanbul. Her family comes from Isparta on her father's side and, on her mother's side, from Siirt, with Egyptian origins; her childhood was spent in Suadiye. After Kadıköy Girls' High School, she completed the Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Fine Arts Theater Department in 2000, and in 2004 she graduated from the Müjdat Gezen Art Center Acting Department.

In the early years of her career, she staged Sanat Dansı and Mondi for Çisenti Tiyatro; she hosted live broadcasts on the TRT program Hazır mısınız?, and worked as a soloist and puppeteer on the production Elma Kurdu. She also voiced various animation characters for TRT.

She met wide audiences with the role of Meliha in the series Canım Ailem, and for this performance she was named best actress in a comedy at the Altın Kelebek in 2009. She played Yaren Nevizade in the series Ulan İstanbul, Zuhal Çelik in Şahsiyet and Meryem in Kızılcık Şerbeti; in cinema, she acted in the films Yok Artık! and Cebimdeki Yabancı.

On stage, she appeared in plays such as Festen, Bezirgan and Arzu Tramvayı. For her performance in Arzu Tramvayı, she was deemed worthy of various theater awards in 2018 and 2019; with the play Albüm she was also named actress of the year in comedy at the Sadri Alışık Awards.

Bozoklu played Dolunay in Avşar Film's 2020 film Biz Böyleyiz.