Leyla Göksun

Leyla Göksun — Biography

Leyla Göksun is an actress who turned a start in advertising and magazine shoots into a lasting place in television drama. Wide audiences first noticed her as Gönül, the blind girl in Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu, and she gained national recognition as Ela in the medical drama Doktorlar. She later played Fatma Sultan in Bir Zamanlar Osmanlı: Kıyam and Christine in Jet Sosyete.

At fourteen she went to England and spent six years as a boarder at the International Turkish High School; in 2007 she graduated from Yeditepe University. She registered with the Gaye Sökmen Agency and began in front of the camera with magazine shoots and various commercials, and took theater lessons at Akademi Kenter. She joined Doktorlar in its second season, in 2007, as Melek, and in its fourth season played one of its leads, Ela. Her first film was Dabbe 2 in 2009, in which she played Ece.

She appeared in both seasons of Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu.