Ezgi Eyüboğlu

Ezgi Eyüboğlu — Biography

Ezgi Eyüboğlu is a familiar face of Turkish period and contemporary series, best known to wide audiences as the Crimean princess Aybige Hatun in Muhteşem Yüzyıl. She works mainly in television and occasionally in film, and also continues in the theater.

Her route ran through classical ballet and modeling. She began at the Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory and two years later moved to the Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory, finishing in the classical ballet department; she placed third at Elite Model Look in 2001 and second at Miss Turkey in 2003. She later studied economics at Istanbul University and took a master's degree in advanced acting at Bahçeşehir University. Her screen record begins with Senin Uğruna (2007) and Arka Sokaklar (2008); Kalbim Seni Seçti and Muhteşem Yüzyıl lifted her career. Sudan Bıkmış Balıklar, İntikam, the adaptation of Revenge (as Cemre), Yasak, Ulan İstanbul and Adı Mutluluk (as Kumsal) followed, and in Payitaht Abdülhamid she played Melike. In film she appeared in Aşkın Gören Gözlere İhtiyacı Yok and Yol Arkadaşım 2 (as Çilek), and was nominated at the Sadri Alışık Awards for supporting actress in comedy for the former.

More recently she has kept her place on screen with Bir Aile Hikayesi, the adaptation of This Is Us, Teşkilat, alongside Çağlar Ertuğrul, and Şanzelize Düğün Salonu (as Eda). She married actor Kaan Yıldırım in 2016, and the couple divorced in 2019.