Ayşe Erbulak

Ayşe Erbulak Özgürdal is a writer, actress and journalist from Istanbul, born on January 6, 1957. She was born as the only daughter of Altan Erbulak and Altan Aşkın. When she was accepted to Ankara University State Conservatory at the age of 16, she changed her name to Ayşe by applying to the court upon the suggestion of Cüneyt Gökçer.

After a short time, he left the conservatory and enrolled in the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory, but due to his father's interest in the journalism profession, he left this path before graduating and started working in Güneş, Günaydın and Sabah newspapers.

Ayşe, who married Rıza Külegeç when she was 21, had a son named Dağhan Külegeç, an actor. He started his professional theater career by performing in the play "Seçimler" with his father Altan Erbulak at the Ali Poyrazoğlu Theater in 1987. Erbulak then spent twelve years of her life in Norway, married Willy Bang, whom she met online, and lived in Trondheim.

She also studied food and opened a coffee shop called "Gül (Smile)". When he saw the advertisement of the Skatval Theater in Norway and applied, he took part in a cabaret consisting of 15 sketches, then moved to the Stjördal Theater and came to Turkey with this troupe in 2010 and staged a play in Norwegian; He also performed stand-up comedy shows for a while.

Ayşe Erbulak, who returned to Turkey a year after losing her husband Willy Bang to cancer in 2009, performed on the stand-up stage in venues such as Metin Zakoğlu Cafe Theater, Lush Kabare, BKM Mutfak Sahne and Hayal Kahvesi. He broadcast the "Anne-Child" program live for 200 episodes on TRT, returned to the screens with the "Pis Yedili" series in 2011, and returned to the theater stage with the play "Nafile Dünya" with Emre Kınay's Duru Theater team.

Erbulak, who has a great interest in the detective genre, wrote his book "Very Sweet Death" with the support of his wife and son; This work received widespread attention as the first book of the Hafiye Karılar trilogy. Then, he published the sequel books "Lemoni Death" and "Award-winning Death", and introduced "Nine Room Murders" to the readers in 2014 and "Look Who Came to Anne" in 2015. “The Nine Room Murders” was republished in 2024, and in the same period, he also started working as a translator from Norwegian to Turkish.

Productions in which he took part

• States of Love (2012)
• Blackout Nights (1990)
• thehouseseat - Will You Be My Son-in-Law (2026)

Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.