Şehna Dilan was born as Şehnaz Vreskala to an Albanian immigrant family from former Yugoslavia in İzmir, Turkey on August 27, 1960.
Dilan also posed for erotic photography in popular Turkish men's magazines like Erkekçe, Peri and Bravo in the 1980s.
Dilan starred with Şener Şen in the movie Âşık Oldum ("I Fell in Love") (1985) by Ertem Eğilmez, an adaptation of Woman in Red.
Dilan left the film set of addam’ın Askerleri ("The Soldiers of Saddam") by Gani Rüzgar Şavata and gave up because she could not stand the killing of a horse.
[2][1] After her divorce, she played in the television serials with the singers İbrahim Tatlıses, Oya Aydoğan and Müslüm Gürses in 1993.