Boncuk Yılmaz

Boncuk Yılmaz — Biography

As Saadet in Show TV's Çukur, Boncuk Yılmaz reached a wide audience, and in recent years the Turkish actress has played Sevgi in Netflix's Zeytin Ağacı. The third and final season of that series was released in summer 2026.

Her path began on a train journey: she met director Ahmet Uluçay while traveling and in 2004 started acting with the role of Nihal in Uluçay's film Karpuz Kabuğundan Gemiler Yapmak. A graduate of the Faculty of Communication at Anadolu University, she won the Promising Young Actress award at the 26th SİYAD Turkish Cinema Awards for the role. After that success she appeared in productions such as Sessiz Gece, Kızlar Yurdu, Sıla and Haneler; Mazi Kalbimde Yaradır, Bir Yastıkta and Böyle Bitmesin followed.

The turning point was Çukur, which ran from 2017 to 2021; the same year she also acted in the film Kaygı, and in 2019 she joined the film Kader Postası. She later played Nazmiye Eyüboğlu in ATV's Ateş Kuşları and joined the cast of the TOD series Sorgu, led by Hazal Kaya and Çağlar Ertuğrul. She is also in the cast of Zeytin Ağacı, in which Tuba Büyüküstün plays the lead. In May 2013 she married fellow actor Fethi Kantarcı; the couple have a child.