Selen Öztürk

Born

23 July 1980 (aged 46)

Place of birth

Izmir

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie

Selen Öztürk was born on 23 July 1980 in Izmir. She is the daughter of a mother from Cyprus and a father from Uşak. After graduating from the Hacettepe University State Conservatory in 2004, she settled in Istanbul; she appeared on stage in companies such as Tiyatro Kedi, Tiyatro Oyun Evi and Oyun Atölyesi.

On screen, she took the roles of Asiye in Karayılan and Sema in Bir Varmış Bir Yokmuş. She became widely known through the character Gülfem Hatun in Muhteşem Yüzyıl, which aired between 2011 and 2014. She then played Seniha Sultan in Payitaht: Abdülhamid, Tuna Alpan in Azize and Seher in Atiye; she also appeared in the series Çekiç ve Gül: Bir Behzat Ç. Hikayesi and Kızıl Goncalar. In cinema, she acted in the films Çiçero, Cep Herkülü: Naim Süleymanoğlu and Kağıttan Hayatlar.

Also working in voice-over, Öztürk provided the Turkish voice of Okoye in the films Black Panther and Yenilmezler, of the character Estella in Cruella, and of Mamá Imelda in Coco.

Öztürk played Ayten Hemşire in Avşar Film's 2009 film Sonsuz.