Gonca Vuslateri

Nazlı Gonca Vuslateri (born 2 September 1986) is a Turkish actress, columnist, screenwriter, poet, radio host and acting trainer.

Biography
Vuslateri was born in Bursa on 2 September 1986. She has an older sister, musician Aslı Vuslateri and a stepbrother, Cem Vuslateri. She is of Turkish, Circassian, Abkhazian, Georgian, and Arab descent. Her father was an officer and many of her family work in the army. Gaffar Okkan, chief constable of Diyarbakır who was assassinated in an ambush is a cousin of her grandfather.

Since the age of nine, Vuslateri has studied acting (including kids theatre, Eric Morris, Susana Morris, Enis Fosforoğlu). She graduated from Theater Department of Müjdat Gezen Art Center. Vuslateri, who also worked at the "Dot" theatre, performed a wide range of characters in various genres, including comedy, drama. She played two different characters in comedy series Yalan Dünya simultaneously and won the Golden Butterfly Award for Best Comedy Actress. After portraying the 75 year-old Vasfiye in Yalan Dünya, Vuslateri damaged her vocal chords and was required to visit a sound therapist.

For her role as "Şule" in the series Anne, she was chosen as the best actress of the year by Hürriyet. She later played in Küçük Sırlar, the Turkish remake of Gossip Girl. She played in the Netflix sci-fi series Sıcak Kafa. She portrayed "Masha" by Anton Chekhov in an adaptation of the play The Seagull. During her theatre career, she won two Afife Jale Play Awards and a Sadri Alışık Award. She has published her own poetry book, Manik Serçe. She also the script for the movie Cenazemize Hoşgeldiniz and the children's play Kırmızı Başlıklı Kız Uzayda. She occasionally gives acting lessons.

Vuslateri continues to write in the "Giriş Katın Bir Altı" column of Hürriyet newspaper and presents the "Giriş Katın Bir Altı" radio programme on NTV radio.

Film

 * Cenazemize Hoşgeldiniz (2023)

Theatre

 * Kırmızı Başlıklı Kız Uzayda

Music videos (as actress)

 * Pentagram - Gündüz Gece
 * Nazan Öncel - Aşkitom
 * Can Bonomo - Kara
 * Hayko Cepkin - Nikah Masası

Commercial

 * Media Markt (Vasfiye)
 * Axa Sigorta

Theatre

 * Artiz Mektebi
 * Bana Mastikayı Çalsana
 * Vur Yağmala Yeniden
 * Punk Rock – Simon Stephens – Tiyatro Dot – 2010
 * Kabin – Kemal Hamamcıoğlu – Craft Tiyatro – 2013
 * The Seagull – Anton Chekhov – Pürtelaş Tiyatro – 2017
 * Erkek Arkadaşım Bir Feminist

Discography

 * "Sana Dair" (2016) with Tuna Kiremitçi
 * "Hep Bi' Şey Eksik" (2020)

Books

 * Manik Serçe (2016)

Columnist

 * Giriş Katın Bir Altı

Radio

 * Giriş Katın Bir Altı