Derya Alabora – Biography, Height, Life Story, TV Series

Derya Alabora (born on August 19, 1959) is a Turkish actress. She is most popular for her acting skills and the way she demonstrates a variety of roles. Also, she has the ability to captivate the viewers’ attention and that’s the main reason for her fame and success.

Name	Derya Alabora
Date of Birth	August 19, 1959
Birth Place	İstanbul, Turkey
Nationality	Turkish
Education	Theater Department
College	Mimar Sinan University
Years active	1987–present
Currently Dating	Married (Uğur Yücel)

Derya Alabora Biography

She was born and raised in Istanbul and also has a Turkish family background. Derya Alabora was so passionate about acting since childhood and wanted to undertake this after completing her studies. She made her mindset to join showbiz and pursue it as a career. She has done graduation from the theatre department at the conservatory of Mimar Sinan University in 1982. Afterward, she then started her acting career full of enthusiasm.

She has won numerous awards including two Golden Orange awards for her roles in Masumiyet and Yengec Sepeti. Also, she won the first Ankara Film Festival, the best-supporting actress for “Bir Kırık Bebek” (1988), the seventh Ankara Film Festival, the best-supporting actress for “Yengec Sepeti” (1995), and others. She is best known for Pandora’s Box for which she got the Third Yesilcam Awards on 23rd March 2010 in the category of Best Supporting Actress.

Derya Alabora is an award-winning actress and has received a large number of accolades including the Second Afife Theater Awards, the best-supporting actress of the year for “Balkon” (1998), 40th Cinema Author Association Awards, the best-supporting actress for “Adem′in Trenleri” (2008) and 28th International Istanbul Film Festival, the best actress for “Pandora′nin Kutusu” (2009).

Besides acting in films, she has also worked at the Bursa State theatre for a year. Later on, she then started working with Ali Poyrazglu for some time and formed the Theatre Group with the coordination of Ozdemir Ciftcioglu.

Derya Alabora worked at the 5th Sokak Theatre, the DOT, and the Garajistanbul. She acted in various plays including Kean Genet’s “Balkon”, “Ozen Yula’s Ay Tedirginligi”, and Bryony Lavery’s “Donmus” (Frozen) at the DOT, “Oyunu Bozun” in the Istanbul Theater Festival in 2007.

She made her debut movie named “Bir Kirik Bebek” in 1987, which was directed by Nisan Akman. Alabora worked in not just long films but also acted in short movies and television dramas and she turned into the most prominent and successful actress of Turkish cinema.

Movies And TV Series

Series

Year	Title	Role
1996-1998	Sasifelek Çikmazi
2002	Ask meydan savasi	Mine
2005	Ask her yasta	Canan
2008	Es-Es	Selmin
2008	Dantel	Seher
2011	Küçük Hanimefendi	Fehime
2012	Ciplak Gercek	Mine
2013	Leyla and Mecnun	Student
2014	Pasa Gönlüm	Ayla
2016	Istanbul Sokaklari	Mualla
2017	Atesböcegi	Cahide Pars
2020	Iyi Günde Kötü Günde	Meral
2021	Acans	Ece
2021	Içimizden Biri	Eva Willson
2021-2022	Kirmizi Oda	Vildan Sezgin
2022	Ah Nerede	Perihan
2022	Ru

Movies

Year	Title	Role
1987	Bir kirik bebek	Aysel
1993	Dönersen Islik Çal	Fahise
1994	Yengeç sepeti	Nuray
1995	The Track
1996	80.Adim	Asli
1996	Solgun bir sari gül
1997	Masumiyet	Ugur
1998	Bana Old and Wise’i Çal	Eda
1999	Salkim Hanim’in Taneleri	Nimet
2005	Forbidden Door	Selin
2007	Adam and the Devil	Sükran
2008	Pandora’nın Kutusu	Nesrin
2009	Karanliktakiler	Umay
2010	Die Fremde	Halime
2010	Siyah Beyaz	Nilgün
2014	A Most Wanted Man	Leyla Oktay
2014	Deliha	Aysel
2014	Fakat Müzeyyen Bu Derin Bir Tutku	Naciye
2015	Naciye
2016	91.1	Mama
2017	Bygones Be Bygones	Antula
2018	Deliha 2	Aysel
2018	Kiz Babasi