Esra Erol

Esra Erol — Biography

Esra Erol has been one of Turkey's best-known presenters of marriage programs since 2007. Since 2015 she has hosted Esra Erol'da on ATV, and she also presents the game show Var Mısın Yok Musun on the channel. She has won the Golden Butterfly for Best Female Presenter more than once.

She planned to become a physical-education teacher. Born in Istanbul, she finished her schooling in Kütahya, where her police-officer father was posted, and from her high-school years presented self-produced shows on local radio and television. She took a diction course at Maltepe University and then studied radio and television at Marmara University. Her professional career began in 2003 at Teknoloji TV with Siemens Mobile Kuşak, and Turkuaz on Kanal D brought her wider attention. Her breakthrough came in 2007 with Dest-i İzdivaç on Flash TV, followed by Esra Erol'la İzdivaç on Star TV in 2008 and, from 2009, Esra Erol'da Evlen Benimle on ATV. In 2013 she moved to Fox TV to host Esra Erol'la, and in 2015 she returned to ATV with her current show.

Besides presenting she has acted in the series Kalp Gözü and Banu, the television film Başkan and the cinema films Kanal-i Zasyon and Kamerayla İzdivaç. Her Umut Evi project, begun in 2010, provided free counseling to 6,000 women, and her blue-cap campaign distributed more than 1,000 electric wheelchairs. She is married with two children.