Hazal Kaya was born on October 1, 1990 in Gaziantep. Kaya attended Italian High School in Istanbul, and graduated in 2009. She continues her studies in Istanbul Bilgi University (Performing arts). Her parents (both lawyers) divorced when she was 7 years old. Hazal Kaya speaks Turkish (native language), fluently English and Italian (advanced), and is learning her fourth language, German. Kaya started her acting career with TV series Genco where she took one of the leading roles. In 2008, Kaya continued as one of the leading actresses by playing Nihal Ziyagil in a modern day adaptation of Aşk-ı Memnu. Kaya played in the first two seasons of TV series titled Adını Feriha Koydum (I Named Her Feriha) as Feriha Yılmaz (2012). The series has one of the highest TV ratings in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, and is also very popular in the Arab World[2] and Bulgaria.[3] She played the role of a porter's daughter trapped between two lives and falls in love with the wealthy boy Emir Sarrafoğlu. In late 2012,she starred in a new series called "Son Yaz" but the serie was taken off air after 4 episodes because of expensive production. She also played in A.Ş.K series which was stared in 2013. Her new series is coming in 2015, it's called Maral.
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