Ali İpin

Born

21 December 1955 (aged 70)

Place of birth

Ankara

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie

Ali İpin, whose full name is Ali Ragıp İpin, was born on 21 December 1955 in Ankara. He attended primary and middle school in Ankara and finished high school in Istanbul, where the family had moved because of his father's post. He went to London to study architecture but returned a year later, and in 1975 he entered the theater department of the Ankara State Conservatory; after graduating in 1978, he began performing on the State Theaters' stages.

In 1981 he continued his training as a guest student in the drama department of the Conservatoire de Genève in Geneva; in 1985, back in Geneva, he worked as an assistant director at La Cour des Miracles. With the State Theaters, he appeared in more than forty plays and staged the plays Bir Kuşluk Vakti and Harput'ta Bir Amerikalı. After a long period of work in Ankara, he was appointed to the Istanbul State Theater.

He first stepped in front of the camera in 2000 with the series Samyeli. He became known for the roles of Kirve in Kurtlar Vadisi, Cahit Hakman in Kuzey Rüzgârı and Yusuf Yaşabasmaz in Güzel Köylü; he also played the character Rıdvan Karadağ in the series Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz. He also taught diction, voice-over and acting classes at the Başkent Communication Sciences Academy.

İpin played Doktor in Avşar Film's 2013 film Kedi Özledi.