Gülse Birsel was born on March 11, 1971 in Istanbul. We do not know whether Birsel, the third child of Gültekin and Semiha Şener, grew up influenced by her father's profession as a lawyer and her mother's identity as a housewife, but she also had an important place in the world of art and literature. Her father is from Uşak and her mother is the daughter of a family that migrated to Istanbul from Ordu and Varto district of Muş.
Gülse Birsel's older brother, Bozkurt Şener, is an ophthalmologist and a former national volleyball player. Her older sister, Dilek Yücetin, is 13 years older than her. Gülse takes her name from the first syllables of her mother's and father's names, and her older brother and sister named her. Birsel, who completed his secondary education at Beyoğlu Anatolian High School, was thinking about choosing acting until his senior year of high school.
However, upon the request of his family, he started studying at Boğaziçi University, Department of Economics.
Birsel, who started working at Aktüel magazine during his university years, later completed his master's degree in cinema at Columbia University. After returning to Türkiye, he wrote foreign news for the morning bulletin on ATV and then became the editor-in-chief of Esquire magazine. During this period, he also served as the editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar magazine.
Since 2002, he started working as a columnist in Sabah newspaper and worked as general coordinator in FHM, Gezi, Harper's Bazaar and House Beautiful magazines.
Gülse Birsel's television adventure started with g.a.g., which was broadcast on ATV in 2002. started with the program. Then Oh! He starred in the TV series Eski Kocam, but the series was taken off the air after its second episode. In 2004, he achieved great success with the TV series Avrupa Yakası. Birsel, who was the screenwriter and leading actor of the series, worked with master actors such as Gazanfer Özcan, Hümeyra and Ata Demirer.
Avrupa Yakası reached a large audience for six seasons and said goodbye to the screens with its finale in 2009.
Gülse Birsel also stepped into the world of cinema. There is a Thief in 2005! Birsel, who had her first experience with the movie, then starred in the movie 7 Husbands Hürmüz. His first movie, Aile Araında, for which he wrote the script, was released in 2017 and he also starred in the movie. Birsel also wrote and starred in the TV series Yalan Dünya and continued the series successfully for four seasons.
Birsel, who continued his column writing in Hürriyet newspaper, also served as a jury member in the Komedi Türkiye competition program.
Born in Istanbul on March 11, 1971, with the surname Şener, Gülse Birsel graduated from Beyoğlu Anatolian High School and continued her education at Boğaziçi University, Department of Economics. In his second year of university, he became interested in journalism and started working as a reporter in Aktüel magazine.
After graduating from university, he went to America in 1994. He received his master's degree in cinema from Colombia University in New York. Gülse Birsel, who returned to Türkiye in 1996, prepared the foreign news of the breakfast bulletin on ATV for three months. Then, he served as editor-in-chief of Esquire magazine for a year.
Gülse Birsel, who became the editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar magazine after Esquire, published Bazaar Gelin and Orange magazines. Until 2002, he was the publishing coordinator of Harper's Bazaar, FHM, House Beautiful and Gezi magazines. Gülse Birsel, who worked as the copywriter and presenter of g.a.g., broadcast on ATV for a while since March 2002, was appointed as a columnist in Sabah Newspaper in December 2001.
In March 2003, columns and some g.a.g. He published his first book, "I'm Quite Serious", consisting of texts, and "I'm Still Serious!" in May 2004. He published his second book called. In addition to being the scriptwriter of the TV series Avrupa Yakası, which started broadcasting on ATV in February 2004, he also took part in the cast.
There is a Thief!, which was released on January 21, 2005. took its place in Gülse Birsel's portfolio as her first film project.
Productions in which he took part
He took part in 11 productions in total; The 10 most well-known are listed.
- European Side (2004) — Aslı Sütçüoğlu
- Golden Butterfly Awards (1973) — Self - Presenter
- Jet Sosyete (2018) — Gizem Özpamuk
- Lie World (2012) — Deniz Alsancak
- New Year's Eve (2022) — Seçilay
- Between the Family (2017) — Mihriban
- Comedy Türkiye (2015)
- Between 2 Families (2026) — Mihriban
- There is a Thief! (2005) — Binnur
- Hürmuz with 7 Husbands (2009) — Safinaz
Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.
