Hülya Avşar (born 10 October 1963)is a Kurdish actress, singer, businesswoman, and former beauty pageant titleholder. She debuted with her role as Safiye Sultan in Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem.
Education and career
She graduated from Ankara Cumhuriyet Lisesi and started swimming professionally for DSI. In 1982, she and her family moved to Istanbul. Avşar attended a beauty pageant organized by Bulvar magazine, which she finished first. Later, the organization revoked her crown when it was discovered that she had been married for a brief period. In 1983, she debuted as an actress in the movie Haram. In the following years, she starred in over 70 films and won the Best Actress prize in the 18th Moscow International Film Festival.In addition to this, she launched a singing career that saw a nationwide concert tour, the release of eight albums and two singles.
In 2000, Avşar won the Best Female Singer award by Kral TV. Later that same year, she wrote for Günaydın newspaper as a columnist. Avşar was also the editor of Hülya (a monthly magazine). She plays tennis on an amateur basis and won a championship in the TED 2001 tennis tournament. She is also a television personality who served as a coach and judge for the first two seasons of The Voice from 2011 through 2013.
Avşar also has been a judge on Turkey's Got Talent (Turkish: Yetenek Sizsiniz Türkiye) since 2009. Hülya Avşar was the editor-in-chief of the magazine Hülya, a position she has held for eight years. She is also the founder of the Turkish by H luxury brand, not to be confused with the similarly named New York-based clothing store.
Personal life
Hülya Avşar was born in Edremit, Balıkesir, to a Kurdish father from Ardahan and a Turkish mother from Edremit. A part of her maternal family is of Ottoman Turkish descent who immigrated from Crete, Greece. Other part of her maternal family is of Yörük descent, which is a Turkic ethnic subgroup. In a television show she told that her father's Kurdish name is Ello, and her Kurdish birth name is Malakan. In 1979 Avşar married Mehmet Tecirli, an engineering student; however, they divorced shortly after. Avşar married for a second time in 1997 to Kaya Çilingiroğlu which ended in divorce in 2005; they have one daughter named Zehra She has also dated former 1987-88 European Golden Shoe football player Tanju Çolak and businessman Sadettin Saran between 2007-10.[1]
Discography
Studio albums
• Her Şey Gönlünce Olsun (13 June 1989)
• Hatırlar mısın? (1 October 1990)
• Hülya Gibi (20 October 1991)
• Dost Musun Düşman Mı? (18 March 1993)
• Yarası Saklım (27 December 1995)
• Hayat Böyle (June 1998)
• Aşıklar Delidir (10 May 2002)
• Haute Couture / Kişiye Özel (October 2009)
• Aşk Büyükse (5 October 2013)
Singles
As lead artist
• Sevdim (April 2000)
• Geçmiş Olsun (August 2011)
• Saymadım Kaç Yıl Oldu (July 2019)
As featured artist
• Sen Olmazsan (with Rafet El Roman) (March 2017)
Filmography
Films
Year Title Role Notes
1983 Kahır Hülya
Haram Hülya
Çelik Mezar Gül
1984 Karanfilli Naciye Naciye
Tutku Hacer
Ömrümün Tek Gecesi Gülseren
Yabancı Hülya
Kaptan Melike
Güneş Doğarken Nalan
Ayşem Ayşe
Nefret Hülya
1985 Tele Kızlar Çağla
Ölüm Yolu Zeynep
Mavi Mavi Sibel
Sekreter Hülya
Tapılacak Kadın Sabiha
Suçlu Gençlik Neslihan
Paranın Esiri Başak
1986 Uzun Bir Gece Gülsüm
Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne? Fatmagül
Dağlı Güvercin Azize
Üç Halka 25 Gülçiçek
Kısrak Hülya
Aşk Hikayemiz Sevda
Alın Yazım Hülya
Sevda Ateşi Maviş Gülcan
Mavi Melek Billur Elif
1987 Yarın Yarın Şeyda
Bir Kırık Bebek Gülizar
Çil Horoz Ayten
Geri Dön Gamze
Alamancının Karısı Zeliha
Ziyaret Arzu
1988 Aşıksın Deniz
Hülya Hülya
Melodram Esra
1989 Öğretmen Zeynep Zeynep
Fotoğraflar Neslihan
Fazilet Fazilet
1990 Benim Sinemalarım Nesibe
1993 Hasan Boğuldu Emine
Berlin in Berlin Dilber
1995 Bir Kadının Anatomisi Sibel
1999 Salkım Hanımın Taneleri Nora
2002 Yeşil Işık Elif
2004 Kalbin Zamanı Belkıs
2005 İki Genç Kız Leman
Hababam Sınıfı Askerde Zehra
2007 Bir İhtimal Daha Var Alev
2011 8 Ülke 8 Yönetmen ve Sinan Hürrem Sultan
72. Koğuş Fatma
2018 Selfi Hülya
TV series
Year Title Role Notes
1982 İntibah
1995 Sevginin Gücü
1996 Süper Yıldız
1999 Ah Bir Zengin Olsam
2001 Savunma
2004 Zümrüt
2004 Kadın İsterse
2006 Kadın Severse
2015–2016 Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem Safiye Sultan
2021 Masumiyet Hale Ilgaz
TV programs
Çek Bakalım
Alaturka Solist
Hülya Avşar Soruyor, Habertürk TV – (2009–2011)[15]
Hülya Avşar Show, TNT Show TV Kanal D TGRT – 1996–2011
Hülya Avşar'la Sen Bilirsin, ATV – 2006
Pişti, Show TV – 2006
Hülya Avşar Stüdyosu, Turkmax
Kadınlar ve Erkekler, ATV – 2007
Yetenek Sizsiniz Türkiye, Show TV Star TV TV8 – 2009–2014, 2017–
O Ses Türkiye, Show TV Star TV – 2011–2013
Hülya Avşar, TV8 – 2014–2015
Bir Hülya Avşar Sohbeti, Star TV – 2017–2018
Hülya Avşar Show, YouTube – 2020–