Funda Eryiğit

Funda Eryiğit — Biography

Funda Eryiğit is an actress who has produced award-winning work both on stage and on screen. A wide audience knows her as Ruhiye in the Netflix series Bir Başkadır, and viewers of independent cinema from films such as Limonata, Eksik and Tereddüt. Most recently she played Ayşe in the series Ben Onun Annesiyim, and she took leading roles in the films Kül (2024) and Boğa Boğa (2023).

Theatre training is her real starting point. Born in Zwolle in the Netherlands, she finished Kadir Has Anatolian High School in Istanbul and then completed first the International Relations department of Istanbul University's Faculty of Political Sciences and then its State Conservatory Theatre Department. Her first professional stage experience came in the 2002-2003 season. She reached the screen in 2008 with Canım Ailem, followed by Uçurum, Eski Hikaye, Karadayı (as Belgin) and Gecenin Kraliçesi (as Esra); from 2016 she was in the cast of Poyraz Karayel. In Son Yaz she played Canan Kara.

Her stage successes are as marked as her screen work: she was named best actress in the musical/comedy category at the Sadri Alışık Awards for the Istanbul State Theatre's Sessizlik, and in 2019 she played Rosalind Franklin in Craft Tiyatro's Fotoğraf 51, winning most successful actress of the year at the Afife Theatre Awards. Her family comes from Bafra in Samsun and is of Circassian and Georgian descent. She married director Berkun Oya in 2023.