Sebahat Kumaş

Sebahat Kumaş — Biography

Sebahat Kumaş is an actress best known to Turkish television audiences as Melek in Karagül and for her place in the cast of the long-running Arka Sokaklar. She works in series as well as film and on stage.

Acting came to her after a passion for photography. Born in Aydın, she moved with her family to İzmir as a child, where she went through primary and middle school, and then to Istanbul. Having been interested in photography since middle school, she chose to study it at university and finished the Photography Department of Anadolu University's Open Education Faculty. She then trained in acting at Ekol Drama.

Her first screen work was Arka Sıradakiler, where she played a nurse, followed by Adanalı and a few more series. She joined the cast of Arka Sokaklar in 2006, and Muhteşem Yüzyıl in 2011 brought her a wider audience. The series that got her talked about most was Karagül in 2013. In Kalbimdeki Deniz, broadcast on Fox (2016), she played Diyar Sarıkaya; Zümrüdüanka and the role of Rüya in the 2021 series Aşk Mantık İntikam came later. In her social life she is said to prefer time with family and friends and to dislike nightlife.