Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan

Born

12 September 1965 (aged 61)

Place of birth

Ankara

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie

Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan was born on 12 September 1965 in Ankara. Because his father worked in mining, he spent his childhood in different cities; he attended high school in Izmir. After graduating from the Department of Economics at Gazi University, he entered the Theater Department of the Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory and graduated from it in 1989.

After graduating, he worked for about 18 years with the State Theaters; in addition to acting on the Diyarbakır and Ankara stages, he took on directing and art direction duties, and he also spent a season in Germany working with Roberto Ciulli at the Theater an der Ruhr. After 2000, he turned exclusively to directing in the theater and received the 2002 İsmet Küntay Best Director Award for Misafir, which he staged in Eskişehir. He was among the founders of the State Theaters Artists Association and became the association's first president.

Appearing on screen from 1996, Taylan became widely known for his role as İskender in Leyla ile Mecnun, after the series Kurşun Yarası and Ezo Gelin. In cinema, he played Arap Ali in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da and also appeared in Kelebeğin Rüyası. He won the best actor award at the Altın Koza for Made in Europe and at the Altın Portakal Film Festival in 2020 for Gelincik. From 2022, he hosted the program Empati on NTV.

Taylan played Barbaros in Avşar Film's 2009 film Sonsuz.