She was born in 1995 in
Sivas. Her parents are teachers. Her mother is Hale Temizyürek and her father is Orhan Deniz. She got three years of theater education at her high school. At the age of 15 she wrote a poetry book titled
Güneşi Annem Sanırdım (lit.
I thought the Sun was my mother) in Turkish. When she was 17, she joined a theater competition in her school and won an acting prize. She started with a tourism major at
Ege University but soon changed her major to literature. Dilan participated in 2014 Elidor Miss Turkey beauty competition and won second place. In the 2015 Miss universe pageant that took place in Miami she represented Turkey. In 2015 she acted as 'Ebru' in youth series "Tatlı Küçük Yalancılar" which adaptation of
Pretty Little Liars. In that TV show she joined
Bensu Soral,
Şükrü Özyıldız,
Alperen Duymaz, Beste Kökdemir, Büşra Develi, and
Burak Deniz. In 2015 she also acted as 'Elif' in youth series
Güneşin Kızları TV show with
Hande Erçel and
Tolga Sarıtaş. From August 2016 to June 2017 she played a leading role in the youth series
Bodrum Masalı alongside Alperen Duymaz. In 2016 she was awarded with the shining star award at the Golden Butterfly Awards. In 2018 she appeared in a lipstick commercial for
Avon Products. From 2017 to 2019 she had one of the leading roles in the crime series
Çukur, alongside
Aras Bulut İynemli,
Perihan Savaş,
Erkan Kolçak Köstendil,
Necip Memili, Alperen Duymaz and
Rıza Kocaoğlu. In 2020, she was cast opposite
Metin Akdülger in the movie
Yarına Tek Bilet, which tells the story of two foreigners traveling from
Ankara to
İzmir. In 2020, she starred as Elif Urazoğlu opposite
Burak Deniz in the surreal series
Yarım Kalan Aşklar. In the same year she was cast as one of the female leads
Alev Alev alongside
Demet Evgar and
Hazar Ergüçlü, playing the character of Rüya Yıldırımlar. == Pageantry ==