Biography
Şükran Pınar Ovalı was born on 1 April 1985 in the Eşrefpaşa district of İzmir and grew up in Bahçelievler. After Selma Yiğit Alp High School in Göztepe she moved to Istanbul and graduated from the acting department of the Müjdat Gezen Art Center. She debuted on television in Sırlar Dünyası and in film in Pars: Kiraz Operasyonu (2006), and became widely known through the children’s fantasy series Bez Bebek.
She then played in the period series Kötü Yol and in the films Nar (2011), Yeni Dünya (2015) and Yılmaz Erdoğan’s Ekşi Elmalar (2016), for which she shared the Special Jury Prize at the 22nd Sadri Alışık Theatre and Cinema Actor Awards in 2017. Her television credits also include Şeref Meselesi, Paramparça, Vatanım Sensin and Yargı.
She married the footballer Caner Erkin in Rome in 2017 and they have a daughter, Mihran Ela. In October 2026 she joined the second season of NOW‘s Yeraltı as Derya, an old flame of Bozo who returns with her daughter Ada.
