- Worked for the Language and Culture Center in Turkey as a theatre actress and instructor.
- Studied at New York's Actors Studio.
- Studied at Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul and Versailles Lycee.
- She was a Turkish film and stage actress.
- She performed in French language in the lead roles of Dead Souls (1842) by Nikolai Gogol, Memleketimden Insan Manzaralari. ("Human Landscapes from My Country") (1966-67) by Nâzim Hikmet at the Théâtre national de Chaillot, of Orta Direk ("The Wind from the Plain") (1950) by Yasar Kemal at Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe in Paris, France.
- In 1971, Algan appeared on the stage of the Olympia, the renowned concert venue in Paris.
- In 1980, she moved to Berlin, Germany, where she played worker's theatre on stage four years long with her husband BeklanAlgan and some other Turkish actors such as Tuncel Kurtiz, Sener Sen and Macit Koper.
- Algan had been providing "Corporate and Personal Development", "Communication", "Quality", "Motivation", "Act of Creation", etc. to the employees and senior managers of many institutions since 1989.
- In 1996, she was appointed Deputy General Art Director at the Istanbul City Theatres.
- She was named State Artist in 1971, and received ab UNICEF Honor Award that same year.
- She completed her primary school at Yeni Kolej,the middle school at Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul in Turkey and the high school at Lycée Versailles in France.
- She debuted on the stage in Turkey acting in the drama Tarla Kusu ("Skylark") in 1961. The same year, she played in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- She performed in Giden Tez Geri Dönmez, Kesanli Ali Destani ("Epic of ALi from Kesan") (1964) by Haldun Taner, Talihli Amele, Kurban ve Keloglan at the Schaubühne in Berlin, Germany.
- She founded the "Thatre workshop BILSAK" together with her colleagues in 1984, and the "Theatre Research Laboratory TAL" in 1988.
- Since 2010, she had been training young talents with "Creative and Contemporary Theatre Techniques" and "Commercial, TV Series and Cinema Acting" at the Istanbul Drama Art Academy, where she had been working as the General Art Director, while continuing her theatre and cinema acting.
- In 1960, Muhsin Ertugrul (1892-1979), then director of the Istanbul City Theatres, asked her to return to Turkey, offering her an actress cast.
- She was honored with the second prize of the Bulgarian Golden Orpheus in 1971.
- Her first film was Karanlikta Uyananlar ("Those Who Wake Up in the Dark"), an anti-American film shot in 1964. Due to the big reaction, no cinema accepted to show the film. It resulted in bankruptcy of the production company. After many years, the film was aired on the television.
- After film and theatre, she started a singing career.
- She developed many experimental projects and contributed to the training of new generation theater actors.
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