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Tuba Ünsal
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Tuba Ünsal

Actor · 44 years old

Handan in the series İçerde

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Age44
Birth dateDecember 7, 1981
BirthplaceDenizli
ProfessionActor
Height1.67 m
Zodiac signSagittarius
Eye colorBlue
Former spouseMirgün Cabas

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Tuba Ünsal — Biography

Tuba Ünsal was born on December 7, 1981, in Denizli to a family with a Greek-immigrant Turkish father and a mother descended from Oghuz Turks who came from Bulgaria and Kazan Tatars who came from Romania. Moving between towns as her father's job required, she attended school in Kırklareli, Şanlıurfa and İzmir, took up business studies at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, then left that course to earn a degree in photography and video from Istanbul Bilgi University. Following the 1998 Elite Model Look contest she worked as a model, appeared in commercials, and then turned to acting; she is also a theater and film producer.

She had already been acting as a child since 1992, took her first lead role as Bayırgülü in the series Karaoğlan in 2002, and reached a wide audience playing the title character in Vizontele Tuuba (2004). Her screen work includes the films Plajda (2008), Çılgın Dersane (2007), Dünya'nın En Güzel Kokusu (2016) and Çakallarla Dans (2010), alongside television series such as Kara Melek, Yeniden Çalıkuşu, Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman ki and İçerde.

She married Cem Cantaş in 2004 and divorced in 2006; her second marriage, to Murat Pilevneli in 2010, produced a daughter before ending in 2012. In May 2013 she married the broadcaster Mirgün Cabas, with whom she had a son, and that marriage ended in 2018 as well.

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

Tuba Ünsal's series work does not fit one mold: Handan inside the mob-and-police game of İçerde, Yetişkin Eda in the teen series Aşk 101, Gülümsün Koray in the political drama Bu Kalp Seni Unutur mu?. In my view the real strength is this change of tone; an actor who can move between crime, teen comedy and period drama has a flexibility that is rare in series.

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Tuba Ünsal's notable work gathers in productions about the 1980 coup years: Tuuba, the title character of Vizontele Tuuba, and Gülümsün Koray in Bu Kalp Seni Unutur mu?. Vizontele Tuuba tells the coup with a smile in a small eastern town far from politics, while Bu Kalp Seni Unutur mu? rests on prison testimonies. In my view both of Ünsal's roles read big history through small lives.

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