Biography
Gülçin Hatıhan was born on 21 December 1972 in Istanbul. She took her first theatre training at the Müjdat Gezen Art Center and later worked with the E.S.E.K theatre founded by Gökhan Semiz. In 1999 she moved to New York, where she lived for ten years, and in 2009 she directed the first Turkish musical staged on Broadway, Hisseli Harikalar Kumpanyası, at the Beacon Theater.
Her television career began in 1994 with Kaygısızlar and Bay Kamber, and she became widely known as Zeynep in Çılgın Bediş. Later roles include Canan in Çocuklar Duymasın (2002), Ümran in Poyraz Karayel, Handan Şadoğlu in Hercai (2019 to 2021), Sahinde Gediz in Bambaşka Biri (2023) and Naile in Kara Ağaç Destanı (2024). In Turkey she has also directed, including Televizyon Cumhuriyeti at the Bakırköy Municipal Theatre.
In 2026 she joined the cast of Kanal D‘s Haysiyet.
