Pınar Deniz

Biography

Pınar Deniz is a Turkish actress known for Ceylin Erguvan in the International Emmy-winning legal drama Yargı (Family Secrets), Işık in Netflix’s Aşk 101 and Yıldız in Vatanım Sensin. She won the Golden Butterfly Award for Best Actress for Yargı in both 2022 and 2023. She was born on 4 November 1993 in Adana to a family of Arab descent from Mardin and grew up in Tarabya, Istanbul.

Career

Deniz graduated from Istanbul University’s School of Public Relations and Advertising. She made her TV debut in 2014 as Evrim in the high-school series Sil Baştan and appeared in the music video for Murat Dalkılıç’s song “Yani”.

Her breakthrough came as Yıldız in the period drama Vatanım Sensin (Wounded Love, 2016–2018). She then starred in the 2018 series Bir Deli Rüzgar and in Netflix’s Aşk 101 (2020–2021), the coming-of-age drama set in the 1990s.

In 2021 she began starring as the fearless lawyer Ceylin opposite Kaan Urgancıoğlu, her Aşk 101 co-star, in Yargı. The series ran until 2024, won the International Emmy for Best Telenovela and brought her two Golden Butterfly Awards.

On film she earned Turkish Film Critics Association nominations for İnsanlar İkiye Ayrılır (Two Types of People, 2020) and Kara Gece (Black Night, 2022).