Yasemin Kay Allen (born 11 July 1989) is an English-Turkish actress.
Early years
Yasemin Kay Allen, born 10 July 1989, in
London, is the daughter of an English father Dudley Allen and
English-
Turkish
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actress and singer Sonja Eady. Eady has been known as
Suna Yıldızoğlu
Suna Yıldızoğlu (born Sonja Eady on 26 February 1955) is an English-Turkish actress and singer, based in Turkey.
Her parents divorced when she was 18. She has six brothers. Since primary school, she showed interest in theatre and dancing and ...
following her first marriage in 1974 to the Turkish actor
Kayhan Yıldızoğlu
''Kayhan'' ( fa, کيهان, '' en, The Cosmos'') is a newspaper published in Tehran, Iran. It is considered "the most conservative Iranian newspaper." Hossein Shariatmadari is the editor-in-chief of ''Kayhan''. According to the report of the '' ...
, upon which she also gained Turkish
citizenship. Her mother's adopted Turkish citizenship means that Yasemin is a
dual
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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 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.
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' competition.
The same year she played the leading role in the Turkish television series ''
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People
*Elif (name)
*Begünhan Elif Ünsal (born 1993), Turkish archer
* Elif AÄŸca (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'' (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
Hayat or Hayet is an Arabic word which means "life".
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, chai ...
''.
In 2013 she played Irmak Tunalı in the series ''
Merhamet
Merhamet (English: ''Compassion'') is a Turkish television drama, Turkish drama television series, adapted from Hande Altaylı's novel ''Kahperengi''. It stars Özgü Namal and İbrahim Çelikkol. Set in 1996, it tells the story of Narin, who is a ...
''.
At the same year she appeared in the shopping site advertisements of N11.com.
In 2013, Yasemin Allen starred alongside Turkish singer
Özcan Deniz in her film debut ''
Su ve AteÅŸ'', playing the leading role Yagmur Efe She then starred as Defne Sultan in the epic drama series ''
Muhteşem Yüzyıl''.
In the same year she played the character Sibel in the gang drama series ''
Åžeref Meselesi
''Åžeref Meselesi'' ( en, Matter of Respect), is a prime time Turkish television drama series produced by D Productions and broadcast from November 23, 2014, on Kanal D.
It is an adaptation of Italian 18-episode series published between 2006 and ...
''; 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 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