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She was introduced to cinema when director Metin Erksan saw her while walking around Beyoglu and offered to shoot a movie.

By the early 1980s, she had attained national fame and became a sex symbol, often incarnating libertines, prostitutes or addicts who nevertheless were generally good hearted.

Tugba also performed as a nightclub singer for a while and released the music album "Buyur Gel/Mirnik" in 1987.

Ahu Tugba married and divorced ten times.

Born into a wealthy family of Istanbul, she graduated from Istanbul's American High School for Girls, high school section for girls of Robert College, and attended, but not finished, English language studies at Concordia University in Canada.