Biography
Ulviye Karaca was born on 1 March 1968 in Ankara and graduated from the theatre department of Ankara University’s Faculty of Language, History and Geography in 1993. She joined the State Theatres in 1998 and works as an actress, director and playwright. She specialises in mask and puppet theatre after postgraduate study at Kraków University.
Her play Keloğlan Keleşoğlan, which she wrote and directed, has been staged for years in Turkey and abroad and won her the 2005 Sanat Kurumu Jury Special Award. On television she is known as Zühre in Beni Affet, Nuriye in Gençliğim Eyvah and Gülsüm Öğretmen in Gönül Dağı (2020 to 2025). She directed Macbeth for the Istanbul City Theatres.
She is married to the State Theatre artist Koray Karaca and they have a son, Arda. In 2025 she appeared as Şükriye in TRT 1‘s Taşacak Bu Deniz, and in 2026 she joined ATV’s Mercan Köşk as Hafsa Mercandağ.