Hülya Avşar (born 10 October 1963) is a Turkish 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 as Fatmagül in film

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Education and career

She graduated from Ankara Cumhuriyet Lisesi and started swimming professionally for DSI. In 1982, she and her family moved to

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. 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. 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

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. In addition to this, she launched a singing career that saw a nationwide concert tour, the release of eight albums and two singles. In 2000, Avşar won the Best Female Singer award by

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. 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 ''

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'' from 2011 through 2013. Avşar also has been a judge on '' Turkey's Got Talent'' () 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

Hülya Avşar was born in

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, to a

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father from

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and a Turkish mother from Edremit. A part of her maternal family is of Ottoman Turkish descent who immigrated from

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. Other part of her maternal family is of Yörük descent, which is a Turkic ethnic subgroup. In a television show she told that her father's Kurdish name is Ello, and her Kurdish birth name is ''Malakan''. In 1979 Avşar married Mehmet Tecirli, an engineering student; however, they divorced shortly after. Avşar married for a second time in 1997 to Kaya Çilingiroğlu which ended in divorce in 2005; they have one daughter named Zehra. She has also dated former 1987-88

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football player

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and businessman Sadettin Saran between 2007-10.

Discography

Studio albums

* ''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

;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 * ''Sen Olmazsan'' (with

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) (March 2017)

Filmography

Films

TV series

TV programs

* Çek Bakalım * Alaturka Solist * Hülya Avşar Soruyor,

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– (2009–2011)Hülya Avşar HABERTÜRK'te
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– 1996–2011 * Hülya Avşar'la Sen Bilirsin, ATV – 2006 * Pişti,

– 2006 * Hülya Avşar Stüdyosu, Turkmax * Kadınlar ve Erkekler, ATV – 2007 *

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, Show TV

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TV8 – 2009–2014, 2017– *

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, Show TV Star TV – 2011–2013 * Hülya Avşar, TV8 – 2014–2015 * Bir Hülya Avşar Sohbeti, Star TV – 2017–2018 * Hülya Avşar Show,

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References

External links

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