Biography
Meltem Akçöl was born on 1 January 2001 in Istanbul and worked as a child model from three to six. She did school theatre and later studied film and television at Bahçeşehir University.
Her professional debut was Kırık Hayatlar (2021 to 2022), where she played the lead, Deniz Yılmaz, across nearly 100 episodes. She then played Hazal in Star TV‘s Duy Beni, İpek in FOX’s Gülcemal and Sultan in TRT 1’s Kara Ağaç Destanı. In summer 2024 she made her film debut as Zeynep Akay in Karantina, adapted from the bestselling novel.
In 2026 she plays the female lead of NOW’s Sevdam Karadeniz as Zeyşan Yeniceli, a young woman who returns to her father’s Black Sea homeland after seventeen years, opposite Erdem Adilce. The series premiered on 12 October 2026.
