Seray Gözler

Seray Gözler — Biography

Seray Gözler is an actress with a long career stretching from the Istanbul State Theatre stage to the screen, known as Şule in Süper Baba, Hayriye in Yabancı Damat and Sevim Abla in Zoraki Koca. She came to the fore again as Feride in Elimi Bırakma and returned to the screen in 2025 with ATV's Can Borcu.

Born in Adana, Gözler graduated from the Theatre Department of Mimar Sinan University and joined the Istanbul State Theatre company. She has appeared in films and series since the 1970s and has also done voice work. From the mid-1980s she worked on stage: she acted in plays such as Sevgili Doktor, Cimri, Cadı Kazanı, Giydirici and Orkestra. On screen Çalıkuşu (1986) and Süper Baba (1993) were early steps, and she played Ayşe in Böyle mi Olacaktı (1997). Yabancı Damat reached a wide audience in 2004, followed by Zoraki Koca, Son Bahar (Gülşen), Sultan (Karaca), Aşktan Kaçılmaz and Süheyla Cevher in Hayat Şarkısı. Elimi Bırakma (2018-2019) and Güzel Günler (Saliha, 2022-2023) are her recent work.

On stage she won the Afife Jale Theatre Award for Kaktüs Çiçeği, the İsmet Küntay Theatre Award in 2011 for İki Çarpı İki, and in 2018 the Best Actress prize at the Yeni Tiyatro Dergisi Emek ve Başarı Awards for Alyoşa. She teaches diction, presenting, voice-over and acting at the Başkent İletişim Bilimleri Akademisi. She is married to the State Theatre actor Saydam Yeniay.