Leyla Tanlar

Leyla Tanlar — Biography

Leyla Tanlar is an actress who appeared on screen at sixteen as Cansu in Paramparça and became one of the younger lead actresses on Turkish television. Her career spans television leads, a streaming production and a feature film, and in 2026 she appeared before theater audiences in the play Job, staged opposite Sarp Akkaya.

Born in Istanbul, Tanlar graduated from the Italian High School and studied Media and Visual Arts at Koç University; she trained as an actress at Akademi 35Buçuk. Her first break was Paramparça, which began in 2014 and ran until 2017, and she received the Most Promising Actor award from Gelişim University in the same period. In 2018 she appeared in a supporting role in Şahin Tepesi and in the series Mehmed: Bir Cihan Fatihi. The real step up came in 2019 with Ferhat ile Şirin on FOX, in which she played the title lead Şirin. In 2022 she took a supporting role in Kaçış, shown on Disney+.

In recent years she has worked mainly for Show TV: she played Selma in Güzel Günler (2022-2023) and Sevilay in Siyah Kalp (2024-2025), a series also known abroad as Valley of Hearts. She also has a role in the 2025 film Erken Kış.