Ayten Kuyululu was a Turkish migrant who settled in Sydney after seven years in Sweden, where she made the TV drama The Outsiders. A professional opera singer who established the Australian Turkish People's Playhouse with her husband, Ilhan, Kuyululu appeared in episodes of the TV crime dramas
Matlock Police (1971-75) and
Ryan (1973) before directing and starring in
A Handful of Dust in 1974.
