Burcu Biricik

Burcu Biricik — Biography

Burcu Biricik is an actress whose path ran from the theater stage to television and then to cinema. She became widely known for playing Hülya Cevher in Kanal D's Hayat Şarkısı; in later years she took the lead in Kuzgun, shared the lead with Erdal Beşikçioğlu on the big screen in Çiçero, and played Nalan İpekoğlu in Camdaki Kız.

At the start, her undergraduate studies in archaeology at Ege University in İzmir ran alongside acting work at the Bornova Municipality City Theatre. Winning an award at a theater festival in her school years pushed her to choose acting as a profession; in 2006 she had been named Mediterranean Queen at the Miss Mediterranean pageant in Antalya. She started at the city theater as a trainee and appeared in plays such as Yaşlı Hanımın Ziyareti and Yedi Kocalı Hürmüz. Her first television job was a small part in Show TV's Maçolar in 2007. In 2011 she shared first place with Alican Aytekin in Kanal D's acting competition Artiz Mektebi. She then took short roles in Muhteşem Yüzyıl and Ustura Kemal, played Derya, a girl from Thrace, in Düşman Kardeşler, and Seda in Beni Böyle Sev.

In 2014 she played Kübra in Şeref Meselesi, which began on Kanal D; Hayat Şarkısı aired in 2016-2017. In the following years she appeared as a guest actor, as Boncuk, in Kırmızı Oda, and in Netflix's Fatma. Camdaki Kız aired on Kanal D from 2021 to 2023.