Biography
Gonca Vuslateri was born on 2 September 1986 in Bursa and grew up between Adana and Istanbul because of her father’s army postings and her parents’ divorce. She took theatre lessons from the second grade and later graduated from the theatre department of the Müjdat Gezen Art Center. She made her screen debut in Ruhsar (1998) and worked for years on stage at DOT Theatre.
Her breakthrough came in 2012 when Gülse Birsel cast her in Yalan Dünya, where she played two characters, Eylem and the elderly Vasfiye Teyze. The role won her the Golden Butterfly for Best Comedy Actress in 2013. She later played Şule Akçay in Anne (2016 to 2017), starred in the Netflix series Sıcak Kafa and played Nur in NOW‘s Leyla: Hayat… Aşk… Adalet….
She is also a poet, columnist, screenwriter and radio host, and wrote the screenplay for the film Cenazemize Hoş Geldiniz. She married the civil servant Levent Yaşar in 2024 and their daughter Asya was born the same year. In 2026 she joined Nurgül Yeşilçay and Bülent İnal in NOW’s Ömür Usta as Nevra, the elegant antagonist who stands against Ömür.
Photo: the photographer, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
