Known as Yeşilçam Turkish cinema's "noble, modern, urban and elegant face", Filiz Akın gained a huge fan base in Turkey.

[3][4] Her mother Habibe Leman Şaşırmaz was a tailor from Ankara, and her father Bekir Sami Akın was a judge from Afyonkarahisar.

[7] Filiz Akın continued her education at TED Ankara College Foundation Schools through boarding and scholarship.

[3][12] With the insistence of her friend Oya San's mother, Akın participated at a competition organized by Artist magazine and became the winner in 1962.

Trusting the executives of the magazine and Memduh Ün, who convinced her to take the role, helped Akın start her film career.

[12] She signed the agreement and after shooting her first film Akasyalar Açarken opposite Göksel Arsoy in 1962, the producers prepared a program for her during the entire year.

[5] Tatlı Dillim, Yumurcak, Umutsuzlar, Ankara Ekspresi, Utanç, Dağlar Kızı Reyhan and Yankesici Kız were among her most famous movies.

[18] Together with actors Türkan Şoray, Hülya Koçyiğit and Fatma Girik, she left a mark on Turkish cinema[19] and has been accepted as one of the four influential actresses of her time.

[23] After ending her cinema career, she played in Istanbul Bank's commercials and in 1977 she presented the music program Podyum Show on TRT.

The attacker who was captured immediately, said to the prosecutor that he was in love with Filiz Akın but after she refused his advances, he decided to stab her.

[7] The witnesses to their marriage were President Süleyman Demirel and Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Hüsamettin Cindoruk.

[31] Her husband Sönmez Köksal was appointed as ambassador to France in February 1998[32][33] and for four years they lived at the Turkish embassy in Paris.

[50][51] In 2006, the street where she lived until she was 3 years old, was named as "Filiz Akın Sokak" by the city council in Beypazarı.