Biography
Melisa Akman was born on 2 February 1990 in Istanbul and studied theatre at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. She combined study with stage work before moving to screen acting in the early 2010s.
Her first television role was Gülizar Hatun in Muhteşem Yüzyıl in 2012. She then played Aslı in Kanatsız Kuşlar (2017 to 2018), Anima in the Netflix series Atiye (2019 to 2020), Derin in Hizmetçiler (2020), Hazan in Kahraman Babam (2021) and Rosa in Barbaroslar: Akdeniz’in Kılıcı.
In 2023 she joined TRT 1‘s Teşkilat as Nazlı Hisarca, code-named Tilki, the team’s engineer for technology and the defence industry. She has played the role from the fourth to the sixth season and remains in the cast for the seventh, which premiered on TRT 1 on 20 September 2026 with a refreshed ensemble that includes Buçe Buse Kahraman, Duygu Sarışın and Damla Colbay.
