Aydan Şener

Aydan Şener — Biography

Aydan Şener's career ran from the Miss Turkey crown in the early 1980s to a place among the most sought-after television actresses of her era. She is remembered above all as Feride opposite Kenan Kalav in the 1986 adaptation of Çalıkuşu. She continues to work on screen and on stage.

Her family, of Crimean Tatar origin, moved to Bursa when she was a baby, and she finished middle and high school at Bursa Lisesi. In 1981 she was crowned Miss Turkey and represented the country at Miss World the same year, and she modelled briefly. In the early 1980s she began acting in the series Küçük Ağa. After Çalıkuşu came Yeniden Doğmak, a series about emigration from Bulgaria to Turkey, and with Tolga Savacı she appeared in the novel adaptations Fatih-Harbiye, Samanyolu and Gölge Çiçeği. Later she took parts in nearly forty series and television films, among them Zühre, Çocuklar Duymasın and Kalbimdeki Deniz, and she also moved into theatre. She is the niece of the actress Suzan Avcı.

Her book Aydan Şener Kadına Dair was published in 2024. In interviews she says she was among the first actors to ask for a trailer on set, and at the end of 2025 she appeared in the play Ne Olacak Şimdi.