Yeşim Ceren Bozoğlu

Yeşim Ceren Bozoğlu — Biography

Yeşim Ceren Bozoğlu is an actress who is also a director, voice actress and acting teacher, with a career that runs from the stage to television and film. Starting in theatre, she gained nationwide recognition through Doktorlar and above all Geniş Aile; today she plays Zarife in Taşacak Bu Deniz.

In the year she graduated from the Acting Department of Dokuz Eylül University's Faculty of Fine Arts, her one-woman play Kadınlar led Cumhuriyet newspaper and Ayşegül Yüksel to name her Young Actress of the Year. She went on to work with the State Theatres, the City Theatres and Duru Tiyatro, and directed some of the plays herself. On television, Sıcak Saatler (1998), Yeditepe İstanbul and Gülbeyaz were early steps. In 2006 she stood out as Fikret Eralp in Doktorlar, and Sevim in Geniş Aile (2009-2011) brought her the widest audience. The improvised film Bahtıkara, which she headlined, won Best Film at the İpekyolu Film Festival. Canım Babam, Elde Var Hayat, O Hayat Benim, Kalbimdeki Deniz, Kuruluş: Osman, Yüzleşme, Annemizi Saklarken and Hayaller ve Hayatlar followed, and in the film Misafir she acted with Lale Mansur and Halit Ergenç.

She teaches acting in Turkish and English at Duru Tiyatro and gathered her experience in the book Dersimiz Oyunculuk. Her grandfather was Colonel Emin Bozoğlu, an engineer on the Devrim automobile project.