Ebru Cündübeyoğlu

Ebru Cündübeyoğlu — Biography

Ebru Cündübeyoğlu is a versatile performer who moved from television hosting into series, theater and film, and who also writes poetry and fiction and records music. She became known in the 1990s through Sabah Şekerleri, reached a wide audience as the lawyer Ayşegül in Deli Yürek, and since 2024 has played Candan Ceylanlı in Arka Sokaklar.

Born in Germany, she went to secondary school in Istanbul and Adapazarı and studied economics at Uludağ University. In 1993 she was placed fourth in the Turkish beauty contest in which her mother had also come fourth in 1970, and she started in television the same year, presenting programs such as Bir Başka Gece until 1997. She entered acting in 1997 with the series Gülüm and went on stage in 1999 in the comedy Fehimpaşa Konağı. Koçum Benim, Omuz Omuza, Yalancı Romantik, Avrupa Avrupa, Evli ve Öfkeli, Senden Daha Güzel and Altın Kafes followed, and she played Nur in the film Kocan Kadar Konuş. In the theater she appeared in Çalıkuşu, Kibarlık Budalası and Ölü'n Bizi Ayırana Dek.

Her first poetry book, Aşılı Kolum, appeared in 2005 and her novel Ferda in 2019; in 2013 she released the album Sevdiğim Şarkılar. She realized at 40 that she is dyslexic and gives talks on learning difficulties. She married in 2003 and divorced in 2022; she has a daughter.