Burcu Kıratlı

Burcu Kıratlı — Biography

Burcu Kıratlı is a television and film actress with theatre training, who also works as a model. She made her name as the lead, Mavi, in atv's Aşk ve Mavi and reached wide audiences as Gökçe in Diriliş:Ertuğrul. More recently she has been in the series Yıldızlar Bana Uzak and the film 7 Melek, and she took the lead in Aşk Sokakta.

Born in Istanbul, she acted in plays and short films while studying Visual Communication Design at Yeditepe University, then trained at the Müjdat Gezen Art Center and worked there as a resident actress for two seasons. The first phase was her introduction on television and film: Yağmur in TRT1's Elde Var Hayat in 2010, and Helin in Özcan Deniz's Su ve Ateş in 2013. In 2014 she shaved her head for Peri Masalı, a role that won her a best breakthrough actress award. The second phase was Diriliş:Ertuğrul, Bizim Hikaye (as Elif) and, from 2016 to 2018, Aşk ve Mavi, for which she received a number of awards, among them actress of the year.

In 2020 she was honoured at a ceremony for her contribution to Turkish cinema. She married and divorced the singer Sinan Akçıl twice.