Özge Ulusoy

Özge Ulusoy (born October 28, 1982, Ankara) is a Turkish model, retired ballet dancer (who holds the prima ballerina assoluta title given by l'École supérieure de ballet), and occasional film actress from Izmir. She is best known for her appearance in the popular TV-series Arka Sokaklar in 2008 and 2009. As a model, she walked the runways for Hussein Chalayan, Mavi Jeans, Mudo, Hervé Léger, Balenciaga, Eva Gronbach, Guy Laroche, Emanuel Ungaro, Christian Dior, Marks & Spencer, Harvey Nichols and Mango. She held the first runner-up title for the annual beauty pageant Miss Turkey in 2003.^[4] In 2002, Ulusoy finished third in Elite Model Management's "Elite Model Look" competition, took second place the following year in the "Miss Turkey" competition, and won the Miss Turkey Universe 2003 title before signing with "Uğurkan Erez Model Management" in Istanbul. Since her debut, Ulusoy has been the face of a variety of advertising campaigns in Turkey.

Early life

Özge Ulusoy was born on October 28, 1982, in Ankara City, the youngest child of Turkish Haydar Ulusoy, a retired chief military justice of Turkish Armed Forces, and Armağan (née ?), a former mayor of Metropolitan Municipality of Sincan district of Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. She is right-handed and white-caucasian. Ulusoy was raised a Muslim. She has an elder sister, associate professor Ph.D. Nilay Ulusoy (Docent), who is an academician in Bahçeşehir University and Marmara University and an alumna of Sorbonne.

A native of Izmir, Turkey, Özge Ulusoy is a graduate of faculty of fine arts in Hacettepe University, Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts and Yeditepe University, where she had classical ballet course and arts administration bachelor's degree. She passed her conservatory examinations to be accepted into these most considerable ballet schools at the age of 12. She has first studied in Hacettepe University, two years later she transferred to Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts in Istanbul. Later in 2003, after holding the first runner-up for the Miss Turkey 2003 title she entered Yeditepe University where she majored in Arts administration with a specialty in classical ballet. She is fluent in Turkish, English, German and French. In 2011, she finished fifth in Survivor: Ünlüler vs. Gönüllüler, the fifth season of Show TV's Turkish version of the reality television game show Survivor, produced by Acun Media.

Filmography

References

External links

• Official website (Redirects to Twitter)
• Özge Ulusoy at the Internet Movie Database