Yasemin Kozanoğlu

Yasemin Kozanoğlu — Biography

Turkish model and actress Yasemin Kozanoğlu is known for modelling, acting and DJing. Her best-known screen work includes the films Çilekli Pasta, Romantik and Avrupalı and the series Avcı; at the end of 2024 she returned to music with an album after years away.

As a child she did figure skating for eight years and won medals. After her parents separated in 1986 she was raised by her maternal grandmother; her grandfather Abdullah Ziya Kozanoğlu was a former president of Beşiktaş. After school she spent two years studying video production in London, then began working at the music company Raks Marşandiz. Meeting the director Sinan Çetin changed her course: she appeared first in commercials and then played Yasemin in Çetin's Romantik. She went on to play Burcu Burkan in Çilekli Pasta, made for atv, the English Angel in Yeşil Işık and Duygu Güner in the series Avcı.

In 2003 she played Gülfem Hatun alongside Ali Sürmeli, Gülben Ergen and Deniz Türkali in Hürrem Sultan, which ran for only eight episodes, and in 2004 she took part in atv's competition Ünlüler Çiftliği. In 2007 she had one of the leading parts, Ela, in the film Avrupalı with Cem Davran, Sema Öztürk and İlknur Soydaş. Alongside all this she worked as a DJ at many nightclubs in Istanbul.