Ayşegül Ünsal

Ayşegül Ünsal — Biography

Ayşegül Ünsal is an actress who has worked in theater, television and film for more than thirty years. In recent years she is best remembered as Hasibe in Aşk ve Mavi, Akınay Hatun in Alparslan: Büyük Selçuklu and Feride in Yabani, and she is currently in the cast of Veliaht.

She turned to the stage in her school years. Her professional theater career began with Yasemin Yalçın Tiyatrosu and the play Beni Biraz Yönetir misin?, and she finished the acting program of Istanbul University State Conservatory in 1996. Her first screen work was Yaz Evi in 1993. Süper Baba and Baba Evi followed in the 1990s, then Kuzenlerim, Gelin and Köprü in the next decade; she played Melek Yazıcı of Köprü again in the film Vali. The 2010s brought Kiraz Mevsimi and Aşk ve Mavi, as well as the film Göl Zamanı. More recently she has appeared in Sen Ağlama İstanbul, Yabani and the film İngiliz Anahtarı: Recep Usta.

Alongside acting she has studied movement meditation and breathing techniques since 1994, and she develops a "Nefes Farkındalığı" (breath awareness) practice built on body and breath. She is the eldest child of a communications specialist mother and an architect father.