Ulviye Karaca

Ulviye Karaca — Biography

Ulviye Karaca is an actress, director and playwright who moved from the State Theatres stage to television. Series viewers know her best as Zühre in Beni Affet, which ran for eight seasons, and in recent years she was on screen in Gönül Dağı and Taşacak Bu Deniz.

She graduated from the Theatre Department of Ankara University's Faculty of Languages, History and Geography in 1993 and joined the State Theatres company in 1998. In 2004 she completed a master's degree in mask and puppet theater at the University of Kraków in Poland and became known above all for work in that field. Keloğlan Keleşoğlan, which she wrote and directed, has been staged at festivals in Turkey and abroad for years; in 2005 she received the Sanat Kurumu Jury Special Award. Küçük Bir Mucize (2008), Üç Şehzade (2013, 2019) and Macbeth (2017) are also among the plays she wrote or directed.

On television she began with Süper Babaanne (2008) and played Zühre in Beni Affet from 2011 to 2018. She then played Nuriye Bozoğlu in Gençliğim Eyvah and Gülsüm Öğretmen in Gönül Dağı from 2020 to 2025, and also appeared in Müjdemi İsterim and Zübeyde: Analar Oğullar. In 2025 she played Şükriye Er in Taşacak Bu Deniz and left the series in January 2026. She will appear in Mercan Köşk on ATV as Hafsa Mercandağ.