Biography
Özge Özacar was born on 22 April 1995 in Istanbul and studied journalism at Marmara University, where she also learned English and French. She took acting lessons at the Istanbul Culture and Art Academy and workshops with Zeynep Günay Tan, and made her screen debut as Müge in Tatlı Küçük Yalancılar in 2015.
She worked in Oyunbozan, Lise Devriyesi and Meryem, where she played Naz Sargun, and got her first real attention as Azra in Sevgili Geçmiş. As Meltem Serez in Kefaret (2020 to 2021) she became better known, and the romantic comedy Kısmet earned her a Golden Butterfly nomination in 2023.
In 2024 she joined Show TV‘s Kızılcık Şerbeti as Görkem Erdem. In September 2026 she took the female lead of Show TV’s Sevdan Bir Ateş as Leyla Kızılırmak, opposite Murat Ünalmış, playing a woman who vanished before her wedding and returns seven years later from Aleppo with a six-year-old daughter.
Photo: the photographer, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
