Biography
Tülin Özen was born on 24 December 1979 in İskenderun to a family from Şavşat, Artvin. After Bornova Anatolian High School in İzmir she briefly studied electrical engineering at Istanbul Technical University, then won a scholarship to the theatre department of Yeditepe University.
Her film debut, the lead in Semih Kaplanoğlu’s Meleğin Düşüşü (2005), won her Best Actress at the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. She has since worked in both arthouse cinema and popular television, and is remembered as Meryemce in Beyaz Gelincik and Handan Sultan in Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem (2015 to 2016). She also played Arzu in Ufak Tefek Cinayetler, Gülbin in the Netflix series Bir Başkadır (2020) and Dr. Piraye in Kırmızı Oda. For Vicdan (2008) she won Best Supporting Actress at SİYAD and the Sadri Alışık Awards.
In 2026 she joined ATV‘s Mercan Köşk as Suna, a member of the Kızılhan family. She is married to the actor Tansu Biçer.
Photo: Gérald Garitan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
