Defne Joy Foster was a Turkish

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

-American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 actress, presenter and VJ.

Early life

Foster was born on September 2, 1975 in İncirlik

Incirlik

İncirlik is a town in the Sarıçam district of Adana Province with a population of 11,555. Formerly a municipality, it was incorporated into Sarıçam Municipality in 2008...

, Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. Her father Steve is an African American

African American

African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...

 and her mother Hatice is a Turk

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 from İzmir

Izmir

Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia. The metropolitan area in the entire Izmir Province had a population of 3.35 million as of 2010, making the city third most populous in Turkey...

. Defne (sometimes rendered as "Daphne" or "Daphné" in some sources) did her studies in Alsancak

Alsancak

Alsancak is a centrally situated large quarter in İzmir, Turkey, within the boundaries of the metropolitan district of Konak, the historic center of the city....

 primary school and in İzmir Özel Fatih Lisesi, a private school in the same city of İzmir.

Career

Foster first appeared on TV screens as a VJ on Kral TV

Kral TV

TV-16 August 1994 King Day was established by Cem Uzan. After performing the test on the joint publication with publication Tele On the first video music channel started broadcasting as the King of TV, has several important turning point in the life of the artist's music. Kral TV Video Music Awards...

 and later went into acting on various TV series.

She last participated in Yok Böyle Dans, the Turkish version of Dancing with the Stars

Dancing with the Stars

Dancing with the Stars is the name of several international television series based on the format of the British TV series Strictly Come Dancing, which is distributed by BBC Worldwide – the commercial arm of the BBC. Currently the format has been licensed to over 35 countries...

, where she finished 4th, having been eliminated in January 2011.

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Ruhsar		TV series
2000	Beyaz Yalanlar	Ahu	TV series
2000	Dadı Dadi Dadi is a Turkish remake of The Nanny, one of the most successful sitcoms in the US in the 90's. The program is set in Istanbul.It is broadcast to countries outside Turkey such as Australia, where it is shown on SBS.-Plot:...	Defne	TV series
2003	Sihirli Annem	Eda	TV series
2006	Selena	Pandora	TV series
2007	Hayal ve Gerçek	Gizem	TV series
2010	Yok Böyle Dans	Herself	Reality show

Death

Foster was found dead at her friend Kerem Altan's apartment in Istanbul on February 2, 2011. The results of an autopsy are expected by mid-March 2011.

External links

• Defne Joy Foster at the SinemaTürk