Şebnem Hassanisoughi

Şebnem Hassanisoughi — Biography

Stage, commercials and music sit alongside television and film in the work of Şebnem Hassanisoughi, a versatile Turkish actress with a theater background. The production that put her in front of a wide audience was Vatanım Sensin; most recently she plays the medical director Aylin Borokay in Doktor: Başka Hayatta.

On television she played Zeynep in Kayıp Şehir, Güzide in Tatar Ramazan and Eftelya in Vatanım Sensin. On film she played Sevda in Geriye Kalan, Ayşegül in Eve Dönüş: Sarıkamış 1915 and Neriman in Bulantı. More recently she played Şebnem Sualp in Yabani and, in 2025, Aynur in the film O da Bir Şey mi.

Born in Istanbul, she has a father who is a lawyer of Iranian Azerbaijani descent and a mother who is a Turkish notary; her surname means "the beautiful one's path" in Persian. She studied theater at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory and took a master's degree in film and drama at Kadir Has University. She plays guitar, drums and harmonica.