Ali Düşenkalkar

Born

1961 (aged about 65)

Place of birth

Nicosia

On Avşar Film

appeared in 2 movies

Ali Düşenkalkar was born in 1961 in Nicosia (Lefkoşa), Cyprus, and completed his education in that city. He is the brother of the actor Munis Düşenkalkar. During his high school years, he performed in a street theater group in Nicosia. In 1979 he came to Istanbul for theater training, and after graduating from the Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory in 1983, he started work at the Istanbul State Theater.

Alongside his stage work, he did radio theater, serialized radio programs, documentary narration and voice-overs for films and series. For many years, he presented the Nutuk with visual accompaniment in schools, universities and Turkish communities abroad. Giving diction and speech lessons, the artist also worked as a lecturer at the Anadolu University Conservatory.

On television, he took the roles of Metin in Baba Evi, Kabak Hafız in Hanımın Çiftliği and Canip in Dila Hanım. In cinema, he played Hayati in Devrim Arabaları. He portrayed Cinci Hoca in Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem, Muammer Kaya in Gönül Dağı and Rum Mehmet Paşa in Mehmed: Fetihler Sultanı.

Düşenkalkar appeared in the Avşar Film productions Osmanlı Cumhuriyeti (Başmabeynci İbrahim Paşa) and Kaçan Fırsatlar Limited.