Fahriye Evcen

Fahriye Evcen — Biography

Fahriye Evcen is an actress born and raised in Germany who became one of the best-known faces of Turkish television and cinema. She is most closely associated with two Reşat Nuri Güntekin adaptations: Necla Tekin in Yaprak Dökümü and Feride in Çalıkuşu. She has recently been attached to the project Hamal alongside Oktay Kaynarca.

While studying sociology in Düsseldorf she received television offers, put her degree on hold and moved to Istanbul with her mother; during a holiday she had been introduced to producer İbrahim Mertoğlu through a television program. After her 2006 breakthrough in Yaprak Dökümü she entered cinema in 2008 with Cennet and led Aşk Tutulması the same year. Later work includes the films Sinyora Enrica ile İtalyan Olmak, Evim Sensin, Aşk Sana Benzer and Sonsuz Aşk, and the series Kurt Seyit ve Şura, Ölene Kadar (opposite Engin Akyürek) and Alparslan: Büyük Selçuklu (as Akça Hatun). In 2021 she also launched her own clothing line. She later completed a degree in history at Boğaziçi University.

She married Burak Özçivit, her co-lead in Çalıkuşu, in 2017; they have two sons. Her mother's family is of Circassian descent and her father's family emigrated from Kavala.