Cansu Demirci

Cansu Demirci — Biography

After starting young, Turkish former child actress Cansu Demirci gave up acting. She is best remembered as Selin Aykar, her role opposite Sinem Kobal in the series Selena, and the press still calls her "the child star of Selena". She stopped acting in 2014 and stepped away from the camera.

Born in Istanbul, she graduated from the St. Georg Austrian High School and School of Commerce in 2010 and trained in ballet. As a child she appeared in productions such as Sırlar Dünyası, Sihirli Lamba and Sihirli Annem, joining the latter as a guest actress. She took a part in Adanalı and then became widely known through Selin in Selena, where the cast also included Sinem Kobal, Zuhal Yalçın and Ümit Erdim. In cinema she appeared in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 2011 film Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da). Her last credits include the 2014 series Gurbette Aşk and the short film Tercih Formu.

After leaving acting she turned to her studies: she graduated in political science and international relations from Yıldız Technical University in 2015 and completed a master's degree at Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany, in 2018. Press reports later said she lives abroad. She married in 2024.