Güzin Çorağan

Güzin Çorağan — Biography

Güzin Çorağan was a stage, film and television actress who is remembered above all as Ulviye in the long-running series Bizimkiler. In it she played the wife of Davut, a returnee from Germany who had come home to Turkey for good, and the character, also called Ulrike, brought her to millions of viewers. She died in November 2022, aged 79, in the Gömeç district of Balıkesir.

She began her artistic life in 1962 at the Bursa Oda Tiyatrosu and worked on stage for many years. Askerin Dönüşü (1974), but the film that made her name was Atıf Yılmaz's Asiye Nasıl Kurtulur?. In the second half of the 1980s she took small but memorable parts in films such as Milyarder, Yoksul, Selamsız Bandosu, Düttürü Dünya and Karılar Koğuşu, and over her film career she appeared in 36 films. She was in the cast of Bizimkiler when it began in 1989 and stayed with the series for fourteen seasons.

In later years she also appeared in series such as Bütün Çocuklarım, Karagümrük Yanıyor and Hanımın Çiftliği, which aired in 2009-2010. For her part in Duruşma (1999) she won Best Supporting Actress at the 12th Ankara International Film Festival in 2000. She was a member of the Contemporary Cinema Actors Association (ÇASOD) and was married to the actor Tayfun Çorağan.