Dilan Çiçek Deniz (born 28 February 1995) is a Turkish actress, model and

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titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Turkey 2014 and represented her country at the

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pageant. Deniz is best known for her role as Sena in ''

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'' (2017-2019).

Biography

She was born in 1995 in

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. Her parents are teachers. Her mother is Hale Temizyürek and her father is Orhan Deniz. She got three years of theater education at her high school. At the age of 15 she wrote a poetry book titled ''Güneşi Annem Sanırdım'' (lit. ''I thought the Sun was my mother'') in Turkish. When she was 17, she joined a theater competition in her school and won an acting prize. She started with a tourism major at

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but soon changed her major to literature. Dilan participated in 2014 Elidor Miss Turkey beauty competition and won second place. In the 2015 Miss universe pageant that took place in Miami she represented Turkey. In 2015 she acted as 'Ebru' in youth series "Tatlı Küçük Yalancılar" which adaptation of ''Pretty Little Liars''. In that TV show she joined

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, Beste Kökdemir, Büşra Develi, and

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. In 2015 she also acted as 'Elif' in youth series ''Güneşin Kızları'' TV show with Hande Erçel and Tolga Sarıtaş. From August 2016 to June 2017 she played a leading role in the youth series ''Bodrum Masalı'' alongside Alperen Duymaz. In 2016 she was awarded with the shining star award at the Golden Butterfly Awards. In 2018 she appeared in a lipstick commercial for

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. From 2017 to 2019 she had one of the leading roles in the crime series ''Çukur'', alongside

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, Necip Memili, Alperen Duymaz and

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. In 2020, she was cast opposite

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in the movie '' Yarına Tek Bilet'', which tells the story of two foreigners traveling from

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. In 2020, she starred as Elif Urazoğlu opposite

in the surreal series '' Yarım Kalan Aşklar''. In the same year she was cast as one of the female leads '' Alev Alev'' alongside Demet Evgar and

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, playing the character of Rüya Yıldırımlar.

Pageantry

Miss Turkey 2014

Dilan Cicek Deniz was crowned as Miss Universe Turkey. Dilan Cicek Deniz competed at

but got eliminated.

Personal life

In January 2018, it was revealed that she was in a relationship with Turkish actor Furkan Andıç. The two broke up in November 2018. She was in a relationship with Icelandic director Thor Saevarsson. On 10 December 2021, she revealed through her Instagram that they were engaged. In December 2023, she mentioned in one of her Instagram stories that she is happily single

Filmography

Theatre

References

External links

Official Miss Turkey website
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