İrem Altuğ

İrem Altuğ — Biography

İrem Altuğ is an actress who started in commercials as a child, moved on to television and film, and has also worked as a writer and producer. The wider public knows her best as Ayşe Koçovalı in Çukur; Sultan in Yalı Çapkını and Sevde Yılmaz in Bir Gece Masalı are among her more recent characters. She also stepped into literature with her novel San Francisco Kafası, published in 2021.

While still in primary school she won a magazine's child beauty contest and went on to appear in close to forty commercials; in 1988 she also placed first in her age group at an advertising star competition. She began theater studies at Mimar Sinan University, then chose to continue abroad and completed them at San Francisco State University, taking part in many independent short and feature productions during five years in America. Back in Turkey she appeared in the films Karılar Koğuşu and Eve Giden Yol 1914 and in the series Şeytan Ayrıntıda Gizlidir, Ihlamurlar Altında, Vazgeç Gönlüm, Kayıp Aranıyor and Aşk Ekmek Hayaller. Kirpi and Melekler ve Kumarbazlar were other film credits.

She was nominated for best actress for her role as Deniz in Nar, and in 2005 received a television award nomination for a crime-genre performance. Altuğ also writes short stories and screenplays, and the short film Direk Aşk, which she wrote and produced, won an award. Her television credits later grew with Masum and Kalp Yarası.