Boncuk Yılmaz

Boncuk Yılmaz is a Turkish actor born in Istanbul on May 13, 1981. She is widely known for her roles as Saadet Koçovalı in the TV series Çukur and Nazmiye in Ateş Kuşları.

Her real name is Boncuk Makbule Yılmaz. He graduated from Anadolu University Faculty of Communication. His transition into acting happened by chance: he met director Ahmet Uluçay on a train journey, and Uluçay cast him in his 2004 film Making Ships from Watermelon Rinds. Her role as Nihal in the film earned her the promising young actress award at the Cinema Writers Association (SİYAD) awards the same year.

Television career

After his first movie, he worked mainly in TV series. She took part in the cast of Sıla and Kızlar Yurdu in 2006 and Haneler in 2009. His real wide recognition came with Çukur, which was published between 2017 and 2021; She played Saadet, the daughter-in-law of the Koçovalı family, throughout the four seasons of the series.

In the following years, she starred in the TV series Zeytin Ağaç and in Ateş Kuşları, which started in 2023, she played the character of Nazmiye, which has an important place in the story.

Yılmaz continues his career, which started with awards in cinema, mostly with character roles in television series.