Bergüzar Korel

Bergüzar Korel is a Turkish actress best known as Şehrazat Evliyaoğlu in the international hit Binbir Gece (One Thousand and One Nights) and as Feride in the crime drama Karadayı. Her family is of Cretan Turkish and Albanian descent.

Education

Korel graduated from the Theatre Department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, one of Turkey’s leading drama schools.

Career

She made her screen debut as Leyla in the film Kurtlar Vadisi: Irak (Valley of the Wolves: Iraq). Wide fame followed with Binbir Gece, in which she played Şehrazat, a widowed architect who makes a desperate deal to save her son. The series was one of the first Turkish dramas to become a global export, sold to dozens of countries from the Balkans to Latin America, and it opened the door for the Turkish drama boom that followed.

She made a one-episode guest appearance as Monica Teresse in Magnificent Century, and in 2012 she starred as Feride Şadoğlu alongside Kenan İmirzalıoğlu in the popular series Karadayı, which ran for three seasons. In 2009 she also hosted the TV programme Bergüzarla Çocuktan Al Haberi.

Music

Korel has released two albums with producer Aykut Gürel: Aykut Gürel Presents: Bergüzar Korel (2016) and Vol. 2 (2020).

Personal life

In August 2009 she married actor Halit Ergenç, her co-star in Binbir Gece. The couple have three children: Ali (born 2010), Han (2020) and Leyla (2021).

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