Can Yaman

Can Yaman (born, 8 November 1989) is a Turkish actor. He received a Golden Butterfly Award for Best Actor in a Romantic Comedy in 2018 for his role in Erkenci Kuş as well as Murex d'Or in 2019. In 2020, he received an international PRODU2020 nomination and in 2021, a nomination for Best Actor in a Romantic Comedy at Golden Butterfly Awards for his role in the series Bay Yanlış. Yaman has also starred in the TV shows Gönül İşleri, İnadına Aşk, Hangimiz Sevmedik, and Dolunay. He also won the 7th GQ Man of the Year Award 2019 as well as several international awards for his charitable initiatives.
Life
Yaman was born on 8 November 1989 in Istanbul, Turkey. His paternal grandfather is Kosovo-Albanian from Kosovo. His paternal grandmother is Albanian from North Macedonia. He is the nephew of football coach Fuat Yaman. From an early age, Yaman's grandmothers were involved hands-on in his upbringing and care due to financial difficulties which his parents experienced. Yaman's parents divorced when he was five years old.
Yaman studied at Bilfen College for primary school, then studied at the Liceo Italiano di Istanbul, where he finished as a top student. Yaman is fluent in several languages: Turkish, Italian, English, German, and also speaks Spanish.
In 2012, he graduated from the Law Department of Yeditepe University, and began working at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he met his current law firm partners. By the time he was 24, Yaman was working in mergers and acquisitions and writing articles for the tax section of Dünya newspaper. As he was finding success in the corporate law sector, he was also realizing that corporate life was not for him. Yaman told Hello! magazine in 2018, "I felt like having an open view but sitting in an office and wearing a suit bothered me a lot. When they gave me an annual leave, I left without coming back. It was on TV that my colleagues saw me next." While on summer leave from work, Yaman travelled to Bodrum where he met his eventual and current acting managers, Cüneyt Sayıl and İlker Bilgi.
Career
Yaman started his career in Gönül İşleri in 2014. In 2015, he starred in İnadına Aşk and starred in Hangimiz Sevmedik in 2016. The breakthrough of his career came in 2017 with the series Dolunay.
From 2018 to 2019, he played the lead role in the Turkish romantic comedy series Erkenci Kuş opposite Demet Özdemir. He received several acting national awards and nominations including international Murex d'Or award for this series.
Υaman played the lead role in the Turkish short series Bay Yanlış. The series was produced by Gold Film, directed by Deniz Yorulmazer, with a script by Aslı Zengin and Banu Zengin Tak. It premiered on FOX in June 2020. For this series, he was nominated for Best Actor in Foreign Series at LATAM PRODU 2020 Awards.
In 2020, he became the face of the leading Turkish clothing brand TUDORS with a 2-year contract worth 3 million dollars.
In December 2020, Yaman made an agreement with Luxvide, an Italian production company, for the series Sandokan.
In March 2021, he was a guest in the Italian series Che Dio ci Aiuti, portraying the character of Gino.
He played as the role "Francesco Demir" opposite Francesca Chillemi in the Italian series Viola come il mare, which started shooting in September 2021.
Yaman was a guest of Canale 5's charity program Che Posta Perte in January 2022. The program broke viewership records. The program was included in the TT list in Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Bulgaria and Czech Republic.
He will portray the character of "Hasan Balaban" in the Disney+ series El Turco.
Personal life
He was romantically linked to various actresses.
During the shooting of İnadına Aşk in 2015, he had a relationship with his co-star Açelya Topaloğlu.
In 2016, he had an eight-month relationship with Bestemsu Özdemir.
During the filming of Erkenci Kuş, many sources stated that he was in a relationship with his co-star, Demet Özdemir, but this was never confirmed. They were seen together in bars and restaurants, on vacation and sharing special dates with their families. Similarly, he was associated with Turkish influencer and businesswoman Aslisah Alkoçlar.
In 2021, Can Yaman had six-month relationship Italian journalist Diletta Leotta.
Filmography
Television
Web series
Commercial
Music video
Awards
References
External links
Can Yaman Mania
Living people
1989 births
Male actors from Istanbul
Yeditepe University alumni
Golden Butterfly Award winners
Turkish male television actors
Turkish male film actors
21st-century Turkish male actors
Turkish people of Kosovan descent
Turkish people of Macedonian descent
Turkish people of Albanian descent
Turkish male models