Yasemin Kay Allen (born 11 July 1989) is an English-Turkish actress.
Early years
Yasemin Kay Allen, born 10 July 1989, in
London
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, is the daughter of an English father Dudley Allen and
English
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Turkish actress and singer Sonja Eady. Eady has been known as
Suna Yıldızoğlu following her first marriage in 1974 to the Turkish actor
Kayhan Yıldızoğlu, upon which she also gained Turkish
citizenship
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. Her mother's adopted Turkish citizenship means that Yasemin is a
dual Turkish-British citizen despite not being ethnically Turkish.
She stated that she is of English 50% descent and of Australian 25% descent.
She has a brother named Kaan. Her family moved to
Turkey
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when she was three months old. She went to Australia with her mother after she completed her elementary school.
There she took cinema, television, drama and Japanese courses.
She earned scholarship from
University of Queensland
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, vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry
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.
She returned to Turkey when she was eighteen.
Then graduated from
Müjdat Gezen Konservatuarı with degree of Theater Arts.
Career
Yasemin Allen was a finalist in the
L'Oréal
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' competition.
The same year she played the leading role in the Turkish television series ''
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*Elif (name)
*Begünhan Elif Ünsal (born 1993), Turkish archer
* Elif Ağca (born 1984), Turkish volleyball player
*Elif Batuman (born 1977), American author, academic, journalist
* Elif Demirezer (born 1992), German-Turk ...
''.
In 2010 she starred as Elena in the series ''
Kavak Yelleri
''Kavak Yelleri'' (literally "Poplar Winds", English title: Daydreaming) is a Turkish youth drama television series produced by TIMS Productions and Sony Pictures Television International. ''Kavak Yelleri'' is a remake of the American show ''Daw ...
'' (Turkish version of Dawson's Creek), and Juliette in another TV series ''
Yerden Yüksek''.
She performed French and Russian accents for this roles. She can do various accents in Turkish and English. She played with her mother for third time in "Elif", "Yerden Yüksek", "46 Yok Olan".
In 2011 she played Pelin Akca in ''
Hayat Devam Ediyor
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People
* Hayat Boumeddiene, common law wife of Amedy Coulibaly, who perpetrated the Montrouge shooting in France in 2015
*Hayat Kabasakal, Turkish management academic
* Malik Asif Hayat, chair ...
''.
In 2013 she played Irmak Tunalı in the series ''
Merhamet''.
At the same year she appeared in the shopping site advertisements of N11.com.
In 2013, Yasemin Allen starred alongside Turkish singer
Özcan Deniz
Özcan Deniz (born 19 May 1972) is a Turkish actor, singer, composer, writer and director, who is of Kurdish descent.
Life
His family is of Kurdish origin. Deniz's family is originally from Ağrı but he was born in Ankara and grew up in Ayd ...
in her film debut ''
Su ve Ateş'', playing the leading role Yagmur Efe She then starred as Defne Sultan in the epic drama series ''
Muhteşem Yüzyıl
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''.
In the same year she played the character Sibel in the gang drama series ''
Şeref Meselesi''; the character was shot to death in the 21st episode, thus ended her role of the series. As of January 2019, Allen co-stars in season 7 and 8 of the
British
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action drama series ''
Strike Back'' as Russian agent "Katrina Zarkova".
Filmography
Awards
References
External links
*
Yasemin Allen Facebook*
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1989 births
Living people
Actresses from London
Turkish television actresses
Turkish film actresses
English television actresses
English film actresses
Turkish people of English descent
English people of Turkish descent