Nefise Karatay

Nefise Karatay — Biography

Nefise Karatay is a television personality whose career runs from modelling through acting to presenting. In the late 1990s and early 2000s she was counted among the best-paid models in Turkey; she later reached wide audiences as Ahu Toros in the series Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu. She has also worked as a television presenter and took part in the 2026 season of the competition show Survivor.

She was born in the German state of Hesse to a family from Turkey; her father was a ship captain who ran a venue on Gökçeada in his retirement. She began her career in 1997 with a music programme she prepared for Number One TV. The same year she was named runner-up in a pageant organised by InterStar and moved into professional modelling. In 1998 she appeared in the video for Hakan Peker's song Bir Efsane.

Her acting years were concentrated in the 2000s: she appeared in the series Kurşun Asker, Beşik Kertmesi, Uy Başuma Gelenler, Çılgın Yuva, Üç Kadın and Meçhule Gidenler, and in the films Para=Dolar and O Kadın. She became known through her role in Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu in 2007-2008, later appeared in the series M.A.T., and also acted in Fatih'in Fedaisi: Kara Murat and Direniş: Karatay. In 2009 she presented the programme Afiş on CNN Türk, and afterwards Hayat Güzeldir on Star TV.