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Songül Öden
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Songül Öden

Actor · 47 years old

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Age47
Birth dateFebruary 17, 1979
BirthplaceDiyarbakır
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signAquarius
Eye colorBrown
EducationAnkara University Faculty of Languages, History and Geography, Theatre Department, Acting

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Songül Öden — Biography

Songül Öden is an actress of Zaza descent who moved from the theater stage to become one of the best-known faces of Turkish television, through series such as Gümüş and Umutsuz Ev Kadınları. Since 2011 she has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) in Turkey. She has recently turned to writing as well, publishing her first story collection, Eşrefi Mahlukat.

Born in Diyarbakır, Öden moved to Ankara with her family at six months old and grew up there. She studied acting in the theater department of Ankara University and took part-time vocal training at the Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory. She worked at Ankara Sanat Tiyatrosu, Ankara Deneme Sahnesi, the Trabzon and Diyarbakır State Theatres and the Sadri Alışık Theatre, and won a Lions Theatre Award as best actress for Kadıncıklar. Her television debut came in 1999 in Ferhunde Hanımlar. Gümüş, in which she shared the lead with Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, brought her to a wide audience and drew great interest in Arab countries. After Vazgeç Gönlüm and Mükemmel Çift she played Yasemin in Umutsuz Ev Kadınları.

In cinema she appeared in Acı Aşk, 72. Koğuş, Rüzgarda Salınan Nilüfer, Ekşi Elmalar and Beni Çok Sev, and won best actress at the Ankara Film Festival for Rüzgarda Salınan Nilüfer. On television she was in Serçe Sarayı, Payitaht Abdülhamid, Bir Aile Hikayesi and Uysallar, and in 2023-2024 she appeared in the Atatürk 1881-1919 films.

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Series Binger A series devotee tracking character arcs, cast chemistry and season pacing.

Songül Öden's series work has passed two different tests. In Gümüş the story is built on Gümüş Doğan, a simple young woman, and that series introduced her to a wide audience. In Umutsuz Ev Kadınları, Yasemin is one of five leads inside a comedy-drama. In my view the second is the more interesting job: over 154 episodes she has to drop the single-heroine melodrama and work in an ensemble rhythm and with comic timing.

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Songül Öden's roles gather women from different periods of Turkey. In Atatürk 1881-1919 she is Zübeyde Hanım in the last Ottoman years; in Ekşi Elmalar she is Türkan, a daughter of a stern mayor's family, from the late 1970s into the 1980s; in Gümüş she is a simple young woman asked to marry into a wealthy household. In my view her work shows how a woman's place in the family shifted over a century, from three different social layers.

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