Esra Kızıldoğan

Esra Kızıldoğan — Biography

Television viewers know Esra Kızıldoğan best as Müge in Sefirin Kızı and Altuncan Hatun in Alparslan: Büyük Selçuklu, though the Turkish actress has a stage background. In 2025 she played Öykü in Aile Saadeti and also appeared in the film Sıcak Büfe. Alongside acting she works as an acting instructor.

She graduated from the Theatre Department of the Istanbul University State Conservatory in 2001 and earned a master's degree in advanced acting at Bahçeşehir University. She came to the stage in the late 1990s with Kent Oyuncuları; for Othello she won Best Supporting Actress at the 2004 Sadri Alışık Theatre Awards, and in later years she appeared in plays such as Macbeth and Hamlet. She entered television in 2004 with Kadir Şinas and continued with series including Beyaz Gelincik, Zoraki Başkan, Bu Kalp Seni Unutur mu?, Leyla ile Mecnun and Sultan; in film she appeared in Hacivat Karagöz Neden Öldürüldü?. She also took part in streaming productions such as Masum and Bozkır. Her breakthrough came with Sefirin Kızı (2019-2021); in 2021 she joined Alparslan: Büyük Selçuklu, moving into historical drama.

In 2019 she returned to the stage in the adaptation of Graham Farrow's Talk about the Passion, and in 2023 she played Nursel in Tetikçinin Oğlu.