Hafsanur Sancaktutan

Hafsanur Sancaktutan — Biography

Hafsanur Sancaktutan is an actress with a stage background who has worked in television drama since 2018. She became known as Fidan in Gülperi and reached a much wider audience through series such as Son Yaz and Ya Çok Seversen. She now plays Cemre in Mercan Köşk, sharing the leading roles with Kubilay Aka and Bertan Asllani.

Drawn to the theater as a child, Sancaktutan trained as an actress after high school and moved to the screen on the strength of local stage awards. Her first television work came in Servet and Gülperi; she then rose to a lead part as Ada Meryem Varlı in Aşk Ağlatır. After playing Yağmur Kara in Son Yaz she appeared in many commercials and became the face of a youth app. She went on to play Sinem in Dünyayla Benim Aramda, Derin in Darmaduman and Leyla in Ya Çok Seversen. In Show TV's 34-episode Siyah Kalp she was Melek Çakırca, and in Kıskanmak, adapted from the novel by Nahit Sırrı Örik, Mükerrem Şen Paşazade.

In 2021 she won Best Breakthrough Actress awards in consecutive ceremonies, and her role in Ya Çok Seversen earned her Best Romantic Comedy Actress at the 49th Golden Butterfly Awards. Of Laz descent from Rize on her father's side and with a mother's family that came from Batumi, she also works as a model.