Selin Yeninci

Selin Yeninci — Biography

Selin Yeninci is an actress with a theater background who reached a wide audience as Saniye Taşkın in ATV's Bir Zamanlar Çukurova and won Best Supporting Actress at the Adana Film Festival and the Turkish Film Critics Association Awards for the film Kurak Günler (Burning Days). In recent years she has also appeared on the international scene: in 2025 she became the first Turkish actress to attend the El Gouna Film Festival as a guest of honor, she served on a jury of the International Emmy Awards, and in 2026 she appeared at Cannes.

She began in theater at İzmir Atatürk High School, where she headed the theater department, and in 2011 graduated from the Acting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Dokuz Eylül University. She performed in Macbeth and Don Juan'ın Gecesi with Haluk Bilginer's Oyun Atölyesi, acted in Alevli Günler at the Istanbul People's Theatre in 2012 and also did voice work. She moved in front of the camera in 2014 with the films Olur Olur and Toz Ruhu, then appeared on television in Kaçın Kurası and Yüz Yüze. In 2018 she played Merve in Avlu and, the same year, began the role of Saniye in Bir Zamanlar Çukurova, which became one of the series' best-remembered parts.

In 2020 she played Arzu in You Know Him, in 2022 Meryem in the series Annenin Sırrıdır Çocuk and, in the same year, Zeynep in Burning Days. In 2025 she played Banu in the series Geleceğe Mektuplar and appeared in the film Uçan Köfteci.