Oya Unustası (born 31 March 1988) is a Turkish actress and model. She is known for her starring role as Zeliş Gıpgıp in ''Kalbim Ege'de Kaldı'' (2015) and has since been in supporting roles in several series.
She was one of the top 20 in the 2013
Miss Turkey
The Miss Turkey () is a national beauty pageant in Turkey. The pageant was founded in 1929, where the winners titled as Miss Turkey World, and Miss Turkey Supranational.
History
The Miss Turkey pageant was initially promoted by the newspa ...
competition.
Life and career
Oya Unustası was born in
Istanbul
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, Turkey. Her paternal side of the family originally migrated from
Bulgaria
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, and her maternal side migrated from
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (; ), also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece (with slightly over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area) and the capital cit ...
.
Her parents initially settled in
Buca
Buca (, ) is a municipality and district of İzmir Province, Turkey. Its area is 178 km2, and its population is 522,404 (2022). It is the biggest district of İzmir Province as terms of population. It covers the southeastern part of the agglom ...
, Izmir before moving to Istanbul. She has two older sisters and an older brother.
She studied at the Flute Department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and trained under the Turkish actress
Ayla Algan.
She preferred acting to music.
Her first film was ''
Losers' Club
''Losers' Club'' () is a 2011 Turkish comedy-drama film, co-written and directed by Tolga Örnek based on a true story, starring Nejat İşler and Yiğit Özşener as the co-hosts of a controversial mid-90s Istanbul radio show. The film, wh ...
'' in 2010. She has since starred in ''Masum Değiliz'' and the television series ''Beyaz Karanfil'', ''Sevdaluk'', ''İzmir Çetesi'' and ''
Diriliş: Ertuğrul'', in the latter playing the role of Sügay Hatun.
In 2017 she acted the part of Olivia in the play ''Çok Satanlar''. She currently stars in ''
Hercai
Hercai (''Inconstant Love'') is a Turkish romantic television series starring Akın Akınözü and Ebru Şahin, along with Gülçin Santırcıoğlu, Serhat Tutumluer, Oya Unustası and Ahmet Tansu Taşanlar. It premiered on ATV on March 15, ...
'', a series broadcast on
ATV.
Personal life
Unustası is married to fellow actor
Ahmet Tansu Taşanlar.
Theatre
Some of her ''notable'' theatre plays:
* 2017— ''Çok Satanlar'' (Olivia)
Filmography
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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1988 births
Living people
Turkish film actresses
Turkish television actresses
21st-century Turkish actresses
Turkish female models
Actresses from Istanbul