Ayça Erturan

Ayça Erturan — Biography

Audiences know Ayça Erturan best from the three-season comedy series Çok Güzel Hareketler Bunlar and from the series Kadın, where the Turkish television, film and stage actress played Yeliz Ünsal, workmate of the lead character Bahar, and drew warm praise. She began with theater at the M.S.M. courses and still performs on stage with BKM Mutfak.

She went to school in Istanbul and, while studying in the Radio and Television Department at Marmara University, also trained in acting at Pera Güzel Sanatlar. Her first screen work was Avrupa Yakası in 2004, followed by Bir Demet Tiyatro in 2006. Çok Güzel Hareketler Bunlar, which began in 2008, brought her to a wide audience, and she is also credited in the writing team of its first season. In the same period she moved into cinema with Neşeli Hayat and Çok Filim Hareketler Bunlar. She then appeared in the series Yağmurdan Kaçarken and Evli ve Öfkeli, in the 2015 films Aşk Nerede? (as Biricik) and Takım: Mahalle Aşkına, and in the 2016 television films Çetin Ceviz and Çetin Ceviz 2.

From 2017 the series Kadın and the film Dört Köşe (as Emel) stand out, followed by Akıncı, Doğduğun Ev Kaderindir, Konuşan Hayvanlar, Müstakbel Damat (as Asuman) and Maviye Sürgün (as Zehra Uncu). She is married to Oğulcan Kırca, and the couple had a daughter in 2021.