Hatice Şendil

Hatice Şendil — Biography

Hatice Şendil is an actress who stepped from the beauty-pageant stage into a leading place on Turkish television. Her career rose mainly on the lead in Dila Hanım and then Kaderimin Yazıldığı Gün, opposite Özcan Deniz; she later played Terken Hatun in the historical series Uyanış: Büyük Selçuklu and Neslihan Arkun in İyilik.

Born in Istanbul and raised in Antalya, she studied business at university. In 2001 she placed third in Miss Turkey and fourth in Miss Europe, and the same year appeared in the music video for Çelik Erişçi's song Töre. She worked as a model for a time and took two years of acting lessons from teachers including Ayla Algan, as well as horse-riding lessons. On screen she appeared as Ebru Alemdar in Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu (2008-2010) and in productions such as Yaban Gülü, İki Yabancı and Fesupanallah. In 2010 she became known as Gülhayat in Karadağlar, a series inspired by Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov.

She also made a guest appearance in Geniş Aile. In 2012 she moved into lead roles with Dila Hanım, played Elif Yörükhan in Kaderimin Yazıldığı Gün in 2014-2015, and in 2015 she acted in cinema in Hayat Öpücüğü. She married actor Burak Sağyaşar in 2015 and the couple have a son; after becoming a mother she took a long break from acting before returning to work.