Özlem Türay, the talented name of Izmir, born on September 11, 1981, is an actress who started her artistic journey at an early age. Türay, who started his education life in his hometown Izmir, completed his primary and secondary education and entered Ankara University, Faculty of Languages, History and Geography, Department of Theater in 2000 and graduated from this department in 2004.
His passion for art showed itself when he took part in various plays at the Izmir Karşıyaka Theater Workshop when he was only 14 years old. He gave acting lessons and performed stage works within the Association for the Protection of Street Children. Türay, who took singing and acting lessons from Harika Lafçıoğlu in 1999 to reinforce her theater education, took part in numerous theater plays.
In 2001, he founded the Mahşer-i Cümbüş theater group with five friends he met at the DTCF Theater Department, and with this group, he introduced Improvised Theater to the audience for the first time in Türkiye. Then "Will You Play With Me?" The artist, who also took part in the children's program called, currently works as a theater teacher in a private educational institution.
While he continued his theater work with Mahşer-i Cümbüş, he also brought Theater Sport to television screens with the program "Anında View Show".
Özlem Türay, who attracted attention with her musical talent as well as her successes on the theater stage, composed the music for the play "Women Also Lost the War" in 2002 and sang the folk song "Hey Onbeşli" with her friend Ayça Işıldar from Mahşer-i Cümbüş. This collaboration continued with rapper Ayben on the song "Karaçalı", and he also made a cover of R.E.M's "Losing My Religion" with Baybora Band and shared it with his fans.
The artist, who also took part in "Play for Nature", one of the important social responsibility projects of our country, reached a wide audience by singing the folk songs "Divane Aşık Gibi" and "Uzun İnce Bir Yoldadım" in this project.
Productions in which he took part
He took part in 20 productions in total; 12 of the most well-known are listed.
- Çukur (2017) — Sevda Varol
- Judgment (2021) — Filiz Bağcı
- Song of Life (2016) — Emine Çamoğlu
- Leyla and Mecnun (2011)
- Don't Let My Hand Go (2018) — Çiğdem
- Red Room (2020) — Selvi's Mother
- Full Moon (2017) — Iqbal
- Let Life Come As It Knows (2022) — Aygün Aydın
- Don't Let It End Like This (2012)
- Umami (2025) — Feride
- 20 Minutes (2013) — Esma "Zorba" Bakıray
- A Family Story (2019)
Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.
