Hülya Avşar (born 10 October 1963)[4][5] is a Turkish-Kurdish actress, singer, businesswoman and former beauty pageant titleholder. She is best known for numerous films and hit revenge series "Kadın İsterse". Her international roles include Safiye Sultan in Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem and Fatmagül in the movie Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne?.[6]

Hülya Avşar
Avşar in 2002
Born (1963-10-10) 10 October 1963 (age 61)
Occupation(s)Actress, singer, businesswoman
Years active1982–present
Spouses
Mehmet Tecirli
(m. 1979; div. 1981)
[1]
Kaya Çilingiroğlu
(m. 1997; div. 2005)
[2]
Children1[3]
Awards1983 Turkey Beauty Pageant Winner (Beauty Queen)
1993 Moscow International Film Festival Best Actress Award Winner
2000 Kral TV Best Female Singer Award Winner

Education and career

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She graduated from Ankara Cumhuriyet Lisesi and started swimming professionally for DSI. In 1982, she and her family moved to Istanbul. Avşar attended a beauty pageant organized by Bulvar magazine, which she finished first. Later, the organization revoked her crown when it was discovered that she had been married for a brief period.[7] In 1983, she debuted as an actress in the movie Haram. In the following years, she starred in over 70 films and won the Best Actress prize in the 18th Moscow International Film Festival.[8] In addition to this, she launched a singing career that saw a nationwide concert tour, the release of eight albums and two singles.[9]

In 2000, Avşar won the Best Female Singer award by Kral TV. Later that same year, she wrote for Günaydın newspaper as a columnist. Avşar was also the editor of Hülya (a monthly magazine). She plays tennis on an amateur basis and won a championship in the TED 2001 tennis tournament. She is also a television personality who served as a coach and judge for the first two seasons of The Voice from 2011 through 2013.

Avşar also has been a judge on Turkey's Got Talent (Turkish: Yetenek Sizsiniz Türkiye) since 2009. Hülya Avşar was the editor-in-chief of the magazine Hülya, a position she has held for eight years. She is also the founder of the Turkish "by H" luxury brand, not to be confused with the similarly named New York-based clothing store.

Personal life

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Hülya Avşar was born in Hasköy, Ardahan, to a Kurdish father from Höçvan Hasköy, Ardahan, and a Turkish mother from Edremit.[10][11] A part of her maternal family is of Ottoman Turkish descent who immigrated from Crete, Greece. Other part of her maternal family is of Yörük descent, which is a Turkic ethnic subgroup.[12] In a television show she told that her father's Kurdish name is Ello, and her Kurdish birth name is Malakan.[13] In 1979 Avşar married Mehmet Tecirli, an engineering student; however, they divorced shortly after.[1] Avşar married for a second time in 1997 to Kaya Çilingiroğlu which ended in divorce in 2005; they have one daughter named Zehra.[2] She has also dated former 1987–88 European Golden Shoe football player Tanju Çolak[14] and businessman Sadettin Saran between 2007 and 2010.[15]

Discography

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Studio albums

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  • Her Şey Gönlünce Olsun (13 June 1989)
  • Hatırlar Mısın? (1 October 1990)
  • Hülya Gibi (20 October 1991)
  • Dost Musun Düşman Mı? (18 March 1993)
  • Yarası Saklım (27 December 1995)
  • Hayat Böyle (June 1998)
  • Aşıklar Delidir (10 May 2002)
  • Haute Couture / Kişiye Özel (October 2009)
  • Aşk Büyükse (5 October 2013)

Singles

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As lead artist
  • Sevdim (April 2000)
  • Geçmiş Olsun (August 2011)
  • Saymadım Kaç Yıl Oldu (July 2019)
  • Sen Aşk Mısın? (April 2022)
  • Duydun Mu? (June 2022)
  • Yapma Aşkım (August 2022)
  • Anlatma (December 2022)
As featured artist

Filmography

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Films

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Year Title Role Notes
1983 Kahır Hülya
Haram Hülya
Çelik Mezar Gül
1984 Karanfilli Naciye Naciye
Tutku Hacer
Ömrümün Tek Gecesi Gülseren
Yabancı Hülya
Kaptan Melike
Güneş Doğarken Nalan
Ayşem Ayşe
Nefret Hülya
1985 Tele Kızlar Çağla
Ölüm Yolu Zeynep
Mavi Mavi Sibel
Sekreter Hülya
Tapılacak Kadın Sabiha
Suçlu Gençlik Neslihan
Paranın Esiri Başak
1986 Uzun Bir Gece Gülsüm
Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne? Fatmagül
Dağlı Güvercin Azize
Üç Halka 25 Gülçiçek
Kısrak Hülya
Aşk Hikayemiz Sevda
Alın Yazım Hülya
Sevda Ateşi Maviş Gülcan
Mavi Melek Billur Elif
1987 Yarın Yarın Şeyda
Bir Kırık Bebek Gülizar
Çil Horoz Ayten
Geri Dön Gamze
Alamancının Karısı Zeliha
Ziyaret Arzu
1988 Aşıksın Deniz
Hülya Hülya
Melodram Esra
1989 Öğretmen Zeynep Zeynep
Fotoğraflar Neslihan
Fazilet Fazilet
1990 Benim Sinemalarım Nesibe
1993 Hasan Boğuldu Emine
Berlin in Berlin Dilber
1995 Bir Kadının Anatomisi Sibel
1999 Salkım Hanımın Taneleri Nora
2002 Yeşil Işık Elif
2004 Kalbin Zamanı Belkıs
2005 İki Genç Kız Leman
Hababam Sınıfı Askerde Zehra
2007 Bir İhtimal Daha Var Alev
2011 8 Ülke 8 Yönetmen ve Sinan Hürrem Sultan
72. Koğuş Fatma
2018 Selfi Hülya

TV series

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Year Title Role Notes
1982 İntibah
1995 Sevginin Gücü
1996 Süper Yıldız
1999 Ah Bir Zengin Olsam
2001 Savunma
2004 Zümrüt
2004 Kadın İsterse
2006 Kadın Severse
2015–2016 Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem Safiye Sultan
2021 Masumiyet Hale Ilgaz

TV programs

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References

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  1. ^ a b Medyafaresi (7 March 2015). "Türkiye'nin en bahtı açık güzeli: Hülya Avşar". Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  2. ^ a b Haber Turk (23 April 2011). "Zehra'nın ilk flörtü". Retrieved 7 July 2011.
  3. ^ Dibe vurmak iyi bir şey... Çünkü tekrar yükseliyorsun. Hurriyet.com, 13 October 2007
  4. ^ "Hülya Avşar kimdir?" (in Turkish). Hürriyet. 31 March 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  5. ^ "Hülya Avşar". biografi.info (in Turkish). Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  6. ^ "Hülya Avşar kimdir, kaç yaşında, nereli? İşte hayat hikayesi". Karar. 22 December 2021. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  7. ^ Akman, Avşar'a bunu neden yapty?
  8. ^ "18th Moscow International Film Festival (1993)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 3 April 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
  9. ^ Hülya Avşar. Turkcemuzik.com
  10. ^ 'Avşar sülalesi Kürt'tür', Radikal, 22 August 2007, Retrieved: 16 October 2008.
  11. ^ Kars'ın şımarık Kürt kızı, Sabah, 13 November 2005, Retrieved: 16 October 2008.
  12. ^ "Biz Anadolu'yuz". Milliyet. 24 August 2009. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  13. ^ "Hülya Avşar: Adım Malakan". Milliyet (in Turkish). 26 February 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  14. ^ Spot Haber (5 October 2006). "Hülya Avşar, Tanju Çolak ilişkisinden hep pişmanmış". Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
  15. ^ Haber Turk (11 October 2010). "Hülya Avşar, Sadettin Saran aşkı bitti". Retrieved 7 July 2011.
  16. ^ Hülya Avşar HABERTÜRK'te Habertürk. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
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Awards
Moscow International Film Festival
Preceded by Best Actress
for Berlin in Berlin
1993
Succeeded by
Emmanuelle Béart
for Une femme française