Hilal Altınbilek

Hilal Altınbilek — Biography

Hilal Altınbilek is an actress and model best known for playing Züleyha Yaman in the atv series Bir Zamanlar Çukurova from 2018 to 2022. Her latest project is the Disney+ production Öngörü, in which she shares the lead with Serkan Çayoğlu as Selen.

Raised in İzmir, Altınbilek took an interest in theater from primary school and took lessons from Ali Haydar Elçığ at the Contemporary Drama Ensemble. While studying business at Ege University she was chosen as a photo model at a modeling contest, and in 2009-2010 she trained at the Müjdat Gezen Art Center in Istanbul. Her first screen experience was İrem in FOX's daily series Derin Sular in 2011. She then became known as Özlem in Karagül, which ran from 2013 to 2016. She played Nil in Kanal D's Hayatımın Aşkı and, in 2018, Yeşim opposite Engin Akyürek in Çağan Irmak's film Çocuklar Sana Emanet.

Her wider fame came with Bir Zamanlar Çukurova, in which she acted alongside names such as İbrahim Çelikkol and Uğur Güneş, and which remains central to her career. Later she played Şebnem Gümüşçü in Şahane Hayatım and, in 2025, Asya Madran in Sahtekarlar on NOW. The August 2026 premiere of Öngörü, and the promotional interviews she gave with Çayoğlu, drew wide press coverage.