Leya Kırşan

Leya Kırşan — Biography

Leya Kırşan is a young Turkish actress who started acting as a child and has worked mainly in television series. She is best known as Elif, the lead of the Tozkoparan series, and for her roles in historical productions; in 2026 she is working on the series Sevdam Karadeniz and the film Efes'in Sırrı.

Her career began in 2014 when she played Ecem in Hayat Yolunda. She then played the childhood of the title character in Maral and Elif in Eve Dönüş, and in 2017 became Zeynep Aksoy in Adı Efsane. The same year she joined the cast of Payitaht Abdülhamid as Şadiye Sultan. Her real breakthrough came in 2018 as Elif in Tozkoparan, a character she kept in the sequel Tozkoparan İskender (2021) and in the follow-up series Gölge and Kaos. Her Payitaht Abdülhamid role as Şadiye Sultan also continued into the second and third seasons. After that she turned to historical drama, playing Fatma Hatun in Kuruluş Osman from 2023 until, as the press reported, she left the series in the summer of 2025.

In cinema she appeared in Efes'in Sırrı, and in June 2026 it was announced that she had joined Sevdam Karadeniz, a production set on the Black Sea coast and aired on NOW.