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Tülin Özen
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Tülin Özen

Actor · 46 years old

Suna Mercandağ in the series Mercan Köşk

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Age46
Birth dateDecember 24, 1979
Birthplaceİskenderun
ProfessionActor
Height1.63 m
Zodiac signCapricorn
Eye colorBlue
EducationYeditepe Players

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Tülin Özen — Biography

Tülin Özen, born on December 24, 1979, in İskenderun to an engineering couple from Şavşat, Artvin, has one sister; the Turkish stage, film and television actor is known for her work in independent cinema as well as popular series. After İzmir Bornova Anatolian High School she began studying electrical engineering at Istanbul Technical University, but switched in her third year after winning a scholarship place in the theater department at Yeditepe University, making her professional stage debut in the State Theatres' Kaygusuz Abdal.

Her role as Zeynep in Semih Kaplanoğlu's Meleğin Düşüşü won her the Golden Orange's best actress prize in 2004, then similar honors at the Ankara and Nuremberg Turkey/Germany festivals, a breakthrough that defined her early career; she went on to appear in the director's Yumurta, Süt and Bal trilogy. Her supporting role in Vicdan later brought her the Sadri Alışık prize, followed by best supporting actress honors from Altın Koza and SİYAD.

On television she reached wide audiences as Meryemce in Beyaz Gelincik and as Handan Sultan in Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem, and played Arzu in the series Ufak Tefek Cinayetler. More recently she played Gülbin in Bir Başkadır and Dr. Piraye Artun in Kırmızı Oda, played Suna Mercandağ in the series Mercan Köşk in 2026, and that year shared a stage with Nilperi Şahinkaya for the first time in the play Ballı Süt.

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Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Tülin Özen's weight in cinema gathers around the films she made with Semih Kaplanoğlu, a line that runs from Zeynep in Meleğin Düşüşü to Zehra in Bal. Those films ask, in my view, for acting that leans on a look and on silence rather than speech, and Özen carries the slow rhythm of independent cinema without breaking it. Handan Sultan in Muhteşem Yüzyıl Kösem is a different world, one where words and intrigue come first. The mark she leaves in cinema is, I think, clearer than the one on television.

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

Tülin Özen's television runs at two speeds. Yalan Dünya is a long-breathed sitcom of four seasons and 90 episodes, while Bir Başkadır and Masum, both written by Berkun Oya, are closed stories of eight episodes each. In a long series the middle stretches inevitably loosen; the short form keeps a story tight. The move towards these short, tight series is, in my view, the best way to read the change of direction in Özen's career.

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