Yonca Şahinbaş

Yonca Şahinbaş — Biography

Yonca Şahinbaş is an actress who has worked for more than thirty years in television drama, on the stage and in the dubbing studio. Her best-known roles include Sırma in Çiçek Taksi, Mürvet in Avrupa Yakası, Füsun Evliyaoğlu in Binbir Gece and Sultan Barazoğlu in Dila Hanım. The daughter of the Yeşilçam actor Mahmut Cevher, she currently plays Selma Emindağ in the series Muhtemel Aşk, which began in 2026.

She entered the profession through the stage: while studying in the theater department of Mimar Sinan University's State Conservatory, she appeared with the Istanbul State Theater in plays such as Afife Jale, Macbeth and Abdülcanbaz, graduating in 1994. In voice work, which she took up in 1991, she gave Turkish voices to Toph and Yue in Avatar: The Last Airbender, young Sophie in Howl's Moving Castle and Patricia Williamson in House of Anubis. Later she performed with the Bakırköy Municipal Theaters in plays ranging from Chekhov and Dario Fo to Haldun Taner and Steven Berkoff, and also worked as a presenter. Her screen career began in 1993 with Yaz Evi; Gurur, Kurt Kapanı, Asmalı Konak and Paydos were among the work of that early period.

In the 2010s she was on screen as İpek Demiray in Kızım Nerede?, Nazan Kozan in Asla Vazgeçmem and Asiye İncesu in Show TV's Yeni Gelin. In the 2020s she played Vedia Sancakzade in Kalp Yarası, Esma Soner in Kendi Düşen Ağlamaz and Nermin Maçari in Gözleri KaraDeniz. She is married to the actor Koray Şahinbaş.