Gülse Birsel was born on March 11, 1971 in Istanbul. Turkish TV series, film actress, journalist, writer, screenwriter and presenter.
Name: Gülse Birsel
Date of Birth: March 11, 1971
Place of Birth: İstanbul
Height: 1.75 m.
Weight: 60 kg
Horoscope: Pisces
Eye Color: Light Blue
Hair Color: Dark Blonde
Mother: Semiha Şener
Father: Gültekin Sener
Spouse: Murat Birsel
Child: None
Siblings: Bozkurt Şener, Dilek Yücelin
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gulsebir/
Pets: She has a dog.
Family: She was born in Istanbul as the third child of Gültekin and Semiha Şener couple. Her father is from Uşak and a lawyer, and her mother is a housewife. She got her name from the first syllables of his mother’s and father’s names. She has an older brother named Bozkurt who is fifteen years older than her and an older sister named Dilek, who is thirteen years older. Her brother is an ophthalmologist and a former national volleyball player. Sh married journalist and television producer Murat Birsel, whom she met through Ayşe Arman, in Cannes, France, a year later, in August 1999. The couple has no children. She states in her interviews that she is not a suitable person to be a mother. She lost her mother in August 2014.
Childhood years: She was thinking of choosing acting as a profession until the last year of high school. However, at the request of hier family, she chose Boğaziçi University Department of Economics. “The youngest children of families love attention. In fact, there is such a statistic that most of the artists were young children of their families. I was a kid who dreamed of show business. I dreamed of being an actor until the end of high school, then caught up with the flow of the examination system and the popularity of the Bosphorus and studied economics. When I started to write in magazines, I said “Okay so I will be a journalist”, but at the age of 30, my life will change again. ”
Education life: She graduated from Beyoğlu Anatolian High School. She completed her higher education at Boğaziçi University, Department of Economics. She completed her master’s degree on Cinema at Columbia University, New York in 1994. In 1996 she returned to Turkey.
Press Career: She started working in Aktüel magazine when she was in the second year of the university. After returning to Turkey in 1996, she wrote of the foreign news bulletins on ATV in the morning for three months. A year later she became the editor-in-chief of Esquire magazine. From December 1997 to 2003, she was the editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar magazine. Later, she worked as a columnist in Sabah newspaper in 2001-2002. During this period, she worked as a general coordinator for FHM, Gezi, Harper’s Bazaar and House Beautiful magazines. Starting to appear on ATV in March 2002, g.a.g. stepped on television with the program named. Until March 2004, she was the host and copywriter of g.a.g.
The turning point of her life: The day she started to write in Aktüel magazine, g.a.g. The day he was offered to host in her program and another day after she said, “I think I can write funny things if I don’t just present it, I think I can write the texts”, and the moment she made the decision “Let me write a sitcom”, she sees as the turning points of her life.
First step into acting: TV adventure, She started with the character ‘Nilüfer’ in the TV series ‘My Old Husband’ (Eyvah! Eski Kocam”.
With which project did she shine? Se drew attention with the character of “Aslı Sütçüoğlu”, which she portrayed in the “European Side” (Avrupa Yakası) series, where she wrote the script and acted.
Personality traits: Not ambitious, but determined. She takes her job seriously, hardworking. “Even if i have no life, I take my job seriously, I work hard, I have fun, I love laughing, friends, music, I have nice holidays. I guess I am generally an optimistic person who can manage without a psychologist. The people around me can criticize me mostly for my selfishness, detail, attention disorder. I have a habit of coming back too late for callers and texts! ”
Personal development: Whenever she has time, she both attends acting workshops and feeds herself by watching plays in New York.
Social: She writes 95 pages a week when she is a TV series. Three days on set. Since she has only four or five hours of socializing two days a week, she prefers to allocate this time to her closest friends and family.
Mindset: She is pessimistic about her, but not many people know this feature. “Then I think,” People don’t love me. ” I’m also a paranoid: ‘Everyone is friends with each other. They became a team. They let me out. “I mean I have this kind of madness but I have good masks. Until now, there has been no woman who has come out and told her own humor material, maybe this is the difference. This is a strange thing actually. Because I think women are funnier than men. They get caught in thinner things, they notice cliches more quickly. But I guess if there are men around, most of the funny women immediately get rid of their juggler in the feminine environment and start to play “elegant, elegant, sexy woman”. Then it becomes “men joke, women laugh.”
Is it more enjoyable to write or play? She enjoys playing more. “Of course, there is no more pleasure than playing but seeing what you wrote in a played form! While writing, sometimes you congratulate yourself, sometimes you think you lack talent and fall into darkness. You have troubles, you are all alone. The screen is at you, you are looking at the screen. It’s the perfect environment to go crazy. Writing is a profession that I would not recommend to anyone. I have managed to protect my mental health so far, for the rest of now it is fate fortune. ”
First motion picture: Oğuzhan Tercan / Hırsız Var
Her gaze on love: “My ideal recipe for love is both peaceful and exciting. How it will be! ”
Her view of life: She is at peace with herself, with a child spirit. “There is not much time to think that my age is too old. Even if you think about it, there is no cure. You can make yourself look 8-10 years younger than your age, even if you shine. I put it in the resume section of all my books, even when I google it, my age is written. Yes, I’m not a person of my age. I am not of that maturity spiritually, I know it. Already in that soul maturity, someone more sane; 14 hours a day, he does not write at a desk just for someone to laugh. It’s a little childish, a little unconscious. ”
Her view of business life: She never worked for money in her life. She thinks study is a good way to spend time. “This job is also an enjoyable one. Screenwriting and columnist, different areas of writing and pen work. Actually, in my stories, I am not telling wealthy families but about Istanbul. Istanbul is not a sterile place either! Whichever neighborhood you go to, you meet people of all socioeconomic levels and professions. This sounds great to me, great stories come out. This is what makes Istanbul Istanbul too. This is not Geneva, where everyone comes from the same lathe. The only acting is sharp for me. I think one of my biggest spoils in life is acting. I feel that I gradually grew up on that subject and will soon become an actor. If Haluk Bilginer is an actor, I cannot call myself an actor. Of course, our 25-year-old friends who have just played in a TV show become ‘actors’ but this is a real profession. I am not someone who just got this as a profession. ”
Concerns: She is badly attached to every word, every behavior that polarizes and separates, stigmatizes. “Turkey is Turkish-Kurdish, rightist-leftist, Islamist-secular because two are inseparable, there is no such separation. It is divided into only “division / polarization / those who want violence” and “those who do not”. The second group is mostly in these lands. I am always hopeful of him. ”
Does she follow the fashion? When she published a magazine, she was more into fashion. She hasn’t been able to follow much in recent years. ” It seems to me that for a good combination you need an hour or something. I love dress plus boots, dress plus shoes for her. It was a shirt, a jacket, a trouser, the waist height of the trousers, it was his belt or something, I can’t get into it. ”
What types of people can not bear the most in life? Bad people do not like. She has no tolerance for people who gossip, lie, slander, harm, steal or cheat. “Who has the evil benefited from so far? Is there anything as stupid as doing evil? From the heavenly religions to the kindergarten teacher, you have always been told the same thing, so you have wisdom, be a good person, brother! After being a good person, I get along with all kinds of madmen. ”
What’s her favorite feature? Her punctuality and extreme anxiety. “I have a pimply mood like death on the end. Excessive anxiety and excessive stress burden. This is not what I dislike in myself, but what I hate. ”
What does she do at home? She can rest at home when she is not writing the most. “Some days I think it is better if I do not have to write the series right now, but it is better to lay the house all over! For example, I love to watch movies from a bed other than laying parquet. ”
How is she with social media? She uses Instagram, she does not have a twitter account. She is aware of the power of social media and the speed of communication, but she thinks she has a lot of degeneration. Also, she doesn’t have the time and energy to connect with that many people. “If I open a Twitter account, someone will ask a question, I don’t have a Twitter account, I have 15 fake accounts! One of them is followed by 522 thousand people and they are put into a very bad stupid place. If I open a Twitter account, someone will ask a question, come on, sit down and the conversation will be longer. There will be hundreds of them, those who do not get an answer will be offended. I am someone who cannot take a vacation even one day a week as long as the series is broadcast. I reply to my friends’ phone messages after three days and I am a conversation material about it. How can I catch up with Twitter! Also, I am writing from morning till night, will I also post on Twitter? ”
TV SERIES
2003-My Old Husband / Nilüfer
2004/2009 -European Side (Avrupa Yakası) / Aslı Sütçüoğlu (Actor / Screenwriter)
2009- Ah My Heart (Ah Kalbim) (Guest Actress)
2012/2014 -Almost Famous / Deniz Alsancak (Actress / Screenwriter)
2018/2020 -Jet Society / Gizem Özpamuk- (Actress / Screenwriter)
CINEMA FILMS
2005- Hırsız Var! /Binnur Ersöz
2009- 7 Kocalı Hürmüz /Safinaz
2017 -Aile Arasında / Mihriban (Actress / Screenwriter)
PRESENTED PRODUCTIONS
-Code 2015 provided Turkey / Jury
2002/2004 –G.A.G. /Server
BOOKS
2003- Gayet Ciddiyim
2004- Hâlâ Ciddiyim
2005- Yolculuk Nereye Hemşerim?
2009- Velev ki Ciddiyim!
2011- Yazlık
2015- Memleketi Ben Kurtaracağım!
AWARDS
2005 – Golden Butterfly Award / Best Female Comedy Actor / European Side
2006 – Golden Butterfly Award / Best Female Comedy Player / European Side
2012-Golden Butterfly Award / Best Screenwriter / Almost Famous
2012 -Antalya Television Award / Best Comedy Series Supporting Actress / Almost Famous
2013 -Woman to Watch Award / Art Leader
2013 -Elle Style Award / Actress of the Year / Almost Famous
-Turkey 2015 Youth Award / Best Screenwriter / Almost Famous
2015 -CEFTUS Award / Special Jury Award
2017-GQ Man of The Year 2017 / Woman of the Year
2018 – Magazine Journalists Association Award / Press Profession Honorary Award
2018 – International Izmir Artemis Film Festival Award / Best Screenplay / Aile Arasında
2019 -Bilkent Television Award / Best Comedy Actress / Jet Society