Pınar Deniz

Pınar Deniz (born November 4, 1993) is a Turkish actress. She is best known for her role as Ceylin in Yargi (2021–2024), a series that won an International Emmy Award. In 2022 and 2023, she won the Golden Butterfly Award for Best Actress for her role in it. Deniz earned two Turkish Film Critics Association Award nominations for her performances in Two Types of People (2020) and Black Night (2022).

Early life and career
Pınar Deniz was born on 4 November 1993 in Adana. Her family is of Lebanese descent. Her family is one of the Arab families in the ancient and multicultural city of Mardin. She stated that she could speak Arabic with Mardin dialect as a child, but now she has forgotten Arabic. She moved with her family to Tarabya, Istanbul, where she grew up. She graduated from the Istanbul University School of Public Relations and Advertising. She lost her maternal grandmother during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey.

She made her television debut in 2014 with the high school series Sil Baştan, in which she portrayed the character of Evrim. She later appeared in a music video for Murat Dalkılıç's song, "Yani". Her breakthrough came with the popular TV series Vatanım Sensin, in which she had the role of Yıldız. As of 2021, she shares the leading role together with Kaan Urgancıoğlu in the TV series Yargı, with whom she had previously co-starred in the Netflix original series Aşk 101.

Personal life
Since the summer of 2022, Deniz has been in a relationship with actor Kaan Yıldırım.