Neriman Uğur

Neriman Uğur — Biography

Neriman Uğur is an actress whose career runs from the stage of the Bursa State Theatre to television drama. She became widely known for the role of Gülsüm in Yılan Hikâyesi, broadcast on Kanal D from 1999 to 2002, and she has worked as a state-theatre artist since 1983.

The theater is the foundation of her career. In 1983 she graduated from the Acting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Dokuz Eylül University, and in the same year she passed the State Theatres entrance examination and began work at the Bursa State Theatre. In 1997 she went to the United States, on invitation, to take part in an acting workshop at the University of Hartford. On stage she has appeared in plays such as Cadı Kazanı (The Crucible), İhtiras Tramvayı, Kafkas Tebeşir Dairesi, Bütün Oğullarım, Aldatma and Bernarda Alba'nın Evi, and outside Bursa she has also worked for the Nilüfer Sanat Tiyatrosu, the Ali Poyrazoğlu Tiyatrosu and Jest Tiyatro.

On television, after Yılan Hikâyesi she played Efsun Hatun in Kırık Ayna, Gülseren in Melekler Adası, Nesrin in Kader, Zeynep in Huzur Sokağı, Şahika in Acı Aşk and Canan in Siyah İnci, and she played Melda Hoca in the film Son Ders: Aşk ve Üniversite. In the 2020s she played Nevbahar Pamiroğlu in Arka Sokaklar and Sevim Avcıoğlu in Yasak Elma, appeared in Yargı in 2023, and in 2025 Vahide Soyluhan in Ben Leman. She has won the Nilüfer Lions and Osmangazi Rotary awards for best theater artist.