Can Yaman

Can Yaman — Biography

Can Yaman is an actor who moved from law to acting and won fame well beyond Turkey as Can Divit in Erkenci Kuş. He now works mainly in Italy: he played the lead in Sandokan and was among the hosts of the first night of the 2026 Sanremo Music Festival.

He finished the Italian High School at the top of his class, graduated from Yeditepe University's law faculty in 2012 and worked for a time in corporate law. After acting lessons with Cüneyt Sayıl he made his screen debut in 2014 as Bedir Kocadağ in Gönül İşleri. İnadına Aşk and Hangimiz Sevmedik followed, and his real breakthrough was Ferit Aslan in Dolunay (2017). Erkenci Kuş (2018-2019) and Bay Yanlış (2020) made him a romantic-comedy lead. In 2020 he agreed to Sandokan with Lux Vide, and he went on to Italian productions, including Francesco Demir in Viola come il mare. In El Turco he plays Hasan Balaban.

For Erkenci Kuş he received the Golden Butterfly for Best Actor in a Romantic Comedy and the Murex d'Or, was nominated again in 2021 for Bay Yanlış, and in 2019 was named GQ's Man of the Year. He speaks Italian, French, English, German and Spanish. In 2021 he founded Can Yaman for Children, a non-profit supporting health and social projects for young people; the same year his Italian memoir Sembra strano anche a me was published.