Serel Yereli

Serel Yereli — Biography

Serel Yereli is a young actress whose best-known part is Alara in Kanal D's series Bodrum Masalı. training, her multilingual upbringing and the theater education behind her set her apart from an ordinary newcomer in that cast, even at the very start of her professional career.

Born Buse Serel Yereli, she was born on April 19, 1995, in the Göztepe district of İzmir as the only child of her family. Because of her father's post in the handball federation, the former national handball player Serdal Yereli, her childhood was spent in several countries. As a kindergarten pupil she won a prize at TÜBİTAK's children's science festival with a project called “Serel's Spaceship”. During her middle-school years she began musical-theatre training in London and played leading roles in the musicals Grease, Mamma Mia and Burlesque. She then studied in the theater department of Yeditepe University, took classes at Craft Atölye and worked with the actress Bahar Kerimoğlu. She speaks English, French, Italian and Spanish.

In 2012 she entered O Ses Türkiye, singing Shakira's “Whenever, Wherever”, but went out in the first round. She entered acting with Bodrum Masalı, directed by Mehmet Ada Öztekin, which began airing on Kanal D on August 18, 2016; in the series she shared the cast with names such as Şevval Sam, Alperen Duymaz, Murat Aygen and Timuçin Esen.