Alara Turan

Alara Turan — Biography

Alara Turan is a young actress with a theater background who has been appearing on Turkish television since 2019. She is best known for Hayal in Star TV's Kardeş Çocukları, Deniz in Evlilik Hakkında Her Şey and Mesude in Annem Ankara. She is still taking on new projects and made her feature-film debut in 2024. Her television work spans four channels: Star TV, Show TV, atv and FOX.

She finished high school at Saint-Joseph French Lycée and then entered the Theatre Department of the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory in İstanbul. She served in the university's theater club, took part in many stage projects and graduated in 2019. The same year she faced the camera for the first time in Kardeş Çocukları.

Her screen career then moved quickly: in 2020 she joined Show TV's Çukur as Songül, in 2021 she played Yıldız in atv's Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz, and from 2021 to 2022 she played Deniz Cevher in Evlilik Hakkında Her Şey on FOX. In 2024 she appeared in the film Hayatla Barış and at the end of the year joined the series Annem Ankara as Mesude; in an interview she said she, too, is an impulsive person like the character.