Simge Selçuk

Simge Selçuk — Biography

In recent years wider audiences have come to know Turkish television actress Simge Selçuk as Nebahat in Kardeşlerim and as Candan in İnci Taneleri, after some thirty years of work in Turkish series. She has repeatedly filled supporting and pivotal parts in ensemble casts, and the role of Nebahat, which ran from 2021 to 2024, is the one most associated with her.

Born in Ankara, she studied music and performing arts at Bilkent University and began acting in her home city before continuing in Istanbul. Her first screen role was Yonca in Ferhunde Hanımlar in 1993. In the late 1990s and early 2000s she was a steady presence in Ayrılsak da Beraberiz (as Serpil) and Evdeki Yabancı (as Bengü); her breakthrough came in 2004 as Leyla in Aliye, the same year she played Özlem in Metro Palas. Parts followed in Acemi Cadı, Küçük Kadınlar (as Tezer Deviren), Avrupa Avrupa (as Mademoiselle Katrine), Mazi Kalbimde Yaradır and Güzel Köylü; she also played Handan in Göç (2012) and Meltem Ökse in Galip Derviş (2014).

In the second half of the 2010s she played Handan in Göç Zamanı and Raşel in Kalbimdeki Deniz, then Melis Korkmaz in Canevim in 2019 and Nezaket in Zümrüdüanka in 2020. In 2021 she was cast in a leading role in Kardeşlerim, and from 2024 she played Candan in İnci Taneleri.