Saadet Işıl Aksoy (born 29 August 1983) is a Turkish-born actress, who received critical acclaim with her portrayal of Aska, a red-haired punk trumpet player in Italian actor-director Sergio Castellitto’s film Twice Born, in which she co-starred with Penélope Cruz and Emile Hirsch. Christy Lemire described her as «the striking Saadet Aksoy» in her Twice Born review, and film critic David Rooney stated, «Saadet Aksoy brings a subdued fieriness to her scenes as a Bosnian woman» in The Hollywood Reporter. In his article on Variety, Boyd Van Hoeij wrote, «Turkish thesp Saadet Aksoy impresses in a supporting role as a spunky Yugoslav local.» about her performance in Twice Born.
Sergio Castellitto explained his first encounter with Aksoy in an article on Vogue Turkey with these words: «Saadet, the first time I met you it was through the internet. I had accidentally ‘fallen’ on a movie trailer. I actually don’t remember anything of that trailer, of that movie. Yet I remember that I saw a woman turning her head abruptly to the camera, her blue eyes burning everything in that framing, blasting the reverse shot.»