- Acelya Ozcan worked as a tax auditor for two and a half years before becoming an actress.
- In Dag 2, she played a Turkoman girl and due to her performance she was mistaken for a real Turkoman actress.
- Frequently composes soundtracks, sings songs as a professional singer and paints.
- In Dag 2 movie, for the preparation of her role, she watched Turkoman documentaries, listening to the recorded speeches of Turkoman dialect.
- Acelya Ozcan was requested to play piano in the serial of "Eve Donus". In that serial, Ozcan by her role has to teach how to play piano to Elif who is 8 years old rich family girl. But Ozcan was lately informed to play piano. She was unprepared and therefore played the first track that comes into her mind. The track was the introduction part of "A Fair Judgement" of the progressive metal band Opeth.
- In the serial of "Askin Halleri", a poster of "Dream Theater" can be seen in her room, behind her. Dream Theater is one of the music bands she admired as a professional music performer and she had the poster placed in the scenes.
- Has said her four favorite performances for cold-blooded and sadistic characters are Gary Oldman's Stansfield in Léon (1994), Kevin Spacey's John Doe in Seven (1995), Andrew Scott's Jim Moriarty in Sherlock (2010) and Blake Ritson's Girolamo Riario in Da Vinci's Demons (2013).
- Can perfectly impersonates Celine Dion.
- Good friends with Haldun Dormen, with whom she shared the central roles of "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" in Haldun Dormen's stage production.
- Stays in shape with interval training, dancing and plenty of squats. Eats healthy, works out and gets her cardio in by dancing.
- Uses music to get into character, most often Beethoven.
- Painted oil canvases and was a member of the rock band while she was studying at University of Istanbul.
- Her fragrance of choice is Hot Couture by Givenchy.
- Her bedside book is "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life" written by Arthur Schopenhauer.
- According to her interview in HT Magazine in 2017, she would really like to work with Pedro Almodovar.
- She is ambidextrous .
- Was a huge fan of the Lucky Luke as a child.
- Is a huge fan of "Dream Theater".
- Nearly everywhere she goes, she carries a pocket-size sketchbook.
- She has said in an interview that Gary Oldman, Daniel Day-Lewis and Christoph Waltz have inspired her acting career.
- If she had not been an actress, she would have liked to become an archaeologist or a symbologist.
- In an interview with HT magazine, Acelya Ozcan spoke about a few of the difficulties she experienced while filming. Ozcan also admitted she experienced hypothermia during of spring in Konya and came down with the flu after spending hours in cold water for the execution scene in "Dag II".
- Is a huge fan of Hrithik Roshan.
- Acelya Ozcan was given full autonomy about her dialogues in the series "Avlu" by the director due to her also being a script doctor.
- Acelya Ozcan spent almost five solid months in preparation for the Kurulus:Osman, including swordplay instruction, archery and riding horse lessons in a farm with Naim Muradov.
- She is a talented equestrian and competent with a composite bow.
- Is a huge fan of Ricky Gervais.
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