İlayda Çevik

İlayda Çevik — Biography

The characters that brought İlayda Çevik to a wide audience were Maya in Karagül, Balca Koçak in Sen Çal Kapımı and Betül Arcan in Bir Zamanlar Çukurova. Born in Balıkesir, she played Hicran in Halef: Köklerin Çağrısı in 2025 and left the series in spring 2026. She is reported to speak English, German and French, and besides acting she has also worked as a model.

She met the stage as a child: she performed for six years as an amateur at the Burhaniye Municipality City Theatre, and her first stage experience was a children's play. She then took lessons at a fine arts high school and at the Müjdat Gezen Art Center, and graduated from the Theatre Department of Yeditepe University.

In 2013 she appeared on screen as Maya Şamverdi in Karagül and stepped into cinema with the film Kızım İçin. After the series İsimsizler and Savaşçı, she played Berrak Yılmaz in Sen Anlat Karadeniz in 2018-2019. In 2020 she took her first lead role as Bahar Çetin in Gel Dese Aşk and joined Sen Çal Kapımı the same year. In 2021 she entered the cast of Bir Zamanlar Çukurova and appeared in the film İlişki Doktoru. In later years she played Luna in Tuzak (2022) and took parts in the series Aldatmak (2023) and the film Senden Kalan (2025).