Ece Yaşar

Ece Yaşar — Biography

Ece Yaşar is an actress best known for playing Karaca Koçovalı in the Show TV series Çukur. Born in Ankara, she works in theater and television drama and also does voice work and has worked as an assistant director. After the Karaca role she also appeared in productions such as Ölüm Zamanı, Annemizi Saklarken and Kısmet.

Her artistic path began in childhood with ballet: during middle and high school she trained at Hacettepe University's Ankara State Conservatory. She decided to become an actress in high school and studied in the acting department of Ankara University's Faculty of Languages, History and Geography. Her first experience was on the theater stage, and she faced the camera in 2015-2016 as Eda in Kara Sevda. She joined Çukur in 2017 and played Karaca until April 2021, when the character left the series; in those years she also stepped into cinema as Maral in the film Direniş Karatay (2018).

Her first projects after Çukur were Ölüm Zamanı, broadcast on Exxen in 2021, and Annemizi Saklarken, in which she played Derya Güven. In 2023 she returned to the screen as Ceylan in the series Kısmet. She is an only child, and her family is originally from Denizli. In an interview in 2024 she described every role as a world of its own for her.