Ayşe Tolga

Ayşe Tolga — Biography

Ayşe Tolga is best known to a wide audience as Gülden in Seksenler, yet her career is not only about the screen. Alongside television and film she has long worked, written and spoken in the fields of healthy living, beauty and personal development, and she has said herself that in recent years she has moved her focus from acting towards this work.

Her screen career began in 1994 with Şehnaz Tango, in which she played Nurşen until 1996. Roles followed in Aşkın Dağlarda Gezer, Ah Bir Zengin Olsam, Çarli İş Başında, Çifte Bela, Beşik Kertmesi, Efsane and Ayrılsak da Beraberiz, where she played Berna. In cinema she appeared as Nilüfer Hatun in Ezel Akay's Hacivat Karagöz Neden Öldürüldü?. The turning point came in 2012 with TRT1's period comedy Seksenler: as Gülden Özdemir she stayed on screen for years, and she later joined the same team for Ev Yapımı, shot in people's homes during the coronavirus lockdown, and appeared in Çocuklar Duymasın.

She graduated from the Ceramics Department of Marmara University's Faculty of Fine Arts and trained as an actress with Şahika Tekand at Studio Oyuncuları. From 2004 she turned to courses in nutrition, detox, massage and body therapies, went on to study aromatherapy and perfumery, and produced and hosted lifestyle programs. She has published the books İyilik Sende (2016) and Ne İstersen Değil, Neysen Onu Çekersin (2023).