Biography
İlayda Alişan was born on 26 February 1996 in Istanbul. She began studying fashion design at İstanbul Bilgi University. Her mother is from Erzincan and her father from Trabzon. A friend of her father registered her with a casting agency without the family knowing, and at fifteen she made her television debut in Bir Çocuk Sevdim.
She got attention in 2014 as Nurten in Benim Adım Gültepe and became widely known as Akşın Koçovalı in Çukur between 2017 and 2020. She has also appeared in the Netflix series Hakan: Muhafız, the drama Masumiyet and the romantic comedy Seversin, and led ATV’s Ateş Kuşları as Gülayşe in 2023 and Kanal D‘s Piyasa as Münevver in 2025. She won a Pantene Golden Butterfly Shining Stars award in 2019.
In 2026 she returned to TRT 1 as Yasemin Bahtiyar in Evlilik Güzeldir, the romantic third daughter of a marriage officer.
