Perihan Ünlücan

Perihan Ünlücan — Biography

For television audiences, Perihan Ünlücan, a Turkish actress, is best known as the lawyer Başak in the long-running series Arka Sokaklar, in which she appeared from 2020 until early 2024. In 2025 she played Gülay in the series Bahar, and she is in the cast, as Ayşen, of Espiyonaj, a series due to air on the Tabii platform.

Born and raised in Istanbul, Ünlücan studied on a scholarship at Cağaloğlu Anadolu High School and then entered the physics department of Kocaeli University's Faculty of Science. A concert she took part in opened the door to acting: with the support of the director Gül Oğuz she made her first appearance on camera as Yıldız in Kış Masalı (2009), shot in Bursa. She went on to appear in a Pepsi commercial alongside Kenan İmirzalıoğlu and in a Carte d'Or commercial. She also acted in Keskin Bıçak alongside İbrahim Çelikkol and Pamir Pekin, and in 20 Dakika, in which Tuğba Büyüküstün, Fırat Çelik and İlker Aksum shared the lead roles.

In 2014 she made her film debut in Polis Akademisi: Alaturka, and around the same time she joined ATV's Karadayı in its third season as Nilay, partnered with Ulaş Tuna Astepe. Later she appeared in Hatırla Gönül (Sermin), in FOX's Kırlangıç Fırtınası (Reyhan Turaboğlu) and Kayıtdışı, and in films such as VerKaç and Hürkuş.