Deniz Durmaz

Deniz Durmaz — Biography

Deniz Durmaz is a Turkish actress best known for young female leads in television series of the 2010s. She reached a wide audience as Azize in the Star TV series Adını Sen Koy, which remains the work most often associated with her.

Her first stage experience came in childhood at the Ankara Children's Theatre. She completed her university studies at Gazi University and took private acting lessons from Neşe Baykent. Her first television job was the role of Esra in Deniz Yıldızı in 2009, and she returned to the series between 2013 and 2015. She then played Selma Pekin, one of the lead roles, in Alın Yazım, and Nazlı in a supporting part in Karagül. In Adını Sen Koy she shared the cast with Cenk Torun, Mert Öcal and Gökberk Demirci, and in 2019 she played Eylül in the series Şampiyon.

In July 2025, together with fellow actress Beren Demirkaya, she drew attention to how hard it is to find work in the acting industry, saying that unemployed actors were turning to jobs such as motorcycle courier work.