Yasmine is an actress and a tv presenter. She was born and bred in Istanbul and moved to England in 2008. She is half Turkish and half Kurdish. She studied LLB Law with German at the University of Sussex, German Law with Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, and completed her Legal Practise Course with the University of Law Bloomsbury.
She worked as a corporate lawyer for 4 years until one day, she was scouted online for a tv show. She then started working as a news reporter, airing on a popular tv network twice a week reporting from London. She filmed numerous documentaries and reported for many channels, from Amnesty International to TV8.
Her transition into acting was a surprise, with her first acting job being a small role in a popular British tv series called Red Dwarf. Since then, she has appeared in 2 feature films where she was the lead and many short films that have gone to film festivals. She has appeared in numerous commercials and hosted many events on stage, from film festivals to awards ceremonies. She was also the lead actress in a play called Tangled which opened at the Criterion in West End in 2019.
Currently, Yasmine resides in London and is also a producer/lawyer. She is the founder of Bastet Productions. To-date, she has produced 8 short films and 10 documentaries. She is currently developing her first feature film and is also working as a production manager on HETV and big-budget feature films.