Ferdi Özten is a German-Turkish actor and voice actor born in 1987 in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. He began his career with formal training, completing his acting studies at the ARTURO Schauspielschule in Cologne from 2008 to 2012. Following his education, he gained extensive experience in theatre, performing with companies such as the Comedia Theater in Cologne, the Junges Theater Bonn, the Theater Heilbronn, and the Stadttheater Paderborn. His stage work included a range of leading roles, such as the title character in Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer and Christopher Boone in Supergute Tage, a performance that contributed to the Junge Theater Bonn winning the Monica Bleibtreu Prize and the audience award in 2016. He has also appeared in numerous German television series, including SOKO Köln, Bettys Diagnose, In aller Freundschaft, and has been a series regular on WaPo Elbe since 2023.

As a voice actor, Özten has lent his voice to a variety of characters in anime, animated series, and films. In the anime series My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, he is the German voice for the character Sirius Dieke, providing the voice for the original Japanese voice actor Toshiki Masuda. This role is part of a broader body of anime voice work. His other notable anime dubbing credits include roles in Orange as Nagasaka, Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma as a student, Bloom Into You as Seiji Maki, Spice and Wolf as Zheren, Bakuman. as Suzuki, The God of High School as Seungtae Woo, and Blast of Tempest as Junichirou Hoshimura.

Through his voice acting career, Özten has established recurring collaborations with several Japanese voice actors, frequently providing the German voice for their performances. These include Toshiki Masuda, whom he voices in My Next Life as a Villainess, as well as Michiel De Meyer in Ghost Rockers and Jérémie Petrus in Unit 42. His work extends beyond anime to include voice roles in films such as Rise of the Footsoldier – The Marbella Job, Girls United Vii – Tanz oder Stirb, and The Angel Maker, as well as various roles in animated series like Die Piraten von nebenan and Summer Memories. In addition to on-screen voice work, Özten is an active narrator for radio and audio productions, having worked for broadcasters like WDR and Deutschlandfunk and on numerous commercial audio dramas and books, including titles for the Titania Medien label's series Gruselkabinett and Sherlock Holmes.