Hande Kaptan

Hande Kaptan — Biography

Hande Kaptan is an actress who works mainly in television series, also appears in theater and film, and does presenting and voice-over work. Viewers know her best as Cennet in Şahane Damat and later as Kadriye in Benim Adım Melek.

She grew up in Ankara and completed primary and secondary school at TED Ankara Koleji. The road to the stage ran through two degrees: in 2006 she graduated both from the Public Administration Department of Gazi University's Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and from the Acting Department of Bilkent University's Faculty of Music and Performing Arts. In the same period she did a master's in Human Resources Management at Gazi University's Graduate School of Social Sciences.

Her screen career began in 2010 with Kollama and Akasya Durağı. Muhteşem Yüzyıl (2011), Benim İçin Üzülme (2012) and Yılanların Öcü (2014) followed, and Şahane Damat (2016) brought her name to a wider audience. In 2017 she played Ezra in the ATV series İkisini de Sevdim, whose cast also included Amine Gülşe, Burak Serdar Şanal, Mehmet Mehmedof and Erhan Yazıcıoğlu.