Elifcan Ongurlar

Elifcan Ongurlar — Biography

Viewers remember Elifcan Ongurlar, a Turkish television actress, for Bahar in Leyla ile Mecnun and Seher in Kayıp Şehir, and she reached a wider audience as Çilem Akan in Sevgili Geçmiş. In 2026 she joined the cast of the Kanal D series Haysiyet.

She grew up inside the arts: her father was a dramaturg at the İzmir Opera and the first artistic director of the Karşıyaka Municipality Opera Stage, and her childhood was spent at concerts, operas and theaters. She took piano lessons, played tennis for ten years from the age of eight and reached the national team. She studied acting at Beykent University.

Her early career rested on youth dramas such as Aşk ve Ceza, Uçurum and Kayıp Şehir; her first film, Ateşin Düştüğü Yer (2012), in which she played Ayşe, was Turkey's submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards. She then took leading parts in Kara Ekmek, Kızlarım İçin (as Sumru) and Sevgili Geçmiş, and appeared in Medcezir and Kiralık Aşk. After 2021 she was in the film Kadınlara Mahsus and the series Yıldızlar Bana Uzak (as Doğa). In 2014 she also appeared on stage in the play Diva.