Zeynep Irgat

Zeynep Irgat — Biography

Zeynep Irgat is an actress who came to television from the stage and built a career spanning decades there. Audiences know her best as Ayşe, the maid brought from the village, in Bizimkiler, and later as Hediye in the ATV series Kırgın Çiçekler. She is the daughter of writer Mina Urgan and poet Cahit Irgat, and the sister of actor Mustafa Irgat.

She studied French Language and Literature in the Faculty of Letters at Istanbul University and graduated. In 1977 she entered the stage through the courses of Dostlar Tiyatrosu; she worked with the Istanbul City Theatres and the State Theatre, taking part in plays such as Kafkas Tebeşir Dairesi, Galileo Galilei, Bay Puntila ile Uşağı Matti, Üzbik Baba and Aslan Asker Şvayk. She worked as an assistant director and spent time in Paris as a trainee on stage productions at the Comédie Française.

In cinema she acted in Hakkâri'de Bir Mevsim (as Halit's wife) and Bir Küçük Bulut, and was assistant director on Camdan Kalp. On television, Bizimkiler ran for years from 1989 into the early 2000s, followed by Baharın Bittiği Yer, Komşu Komşu, Günahım Neydi Allahım, Canım Annem, Yağmur Zamanı, Yemin, Son Tercih and Küçük Hanımefendi. She appeared in Kırgın Çiçekler from 2015 to 2018, then in Kalk Gidelim.