Emir Benderlioğlu

Born

28 October 1979 (aged 47)

Place of birth

Ankara

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie and 1 series

Emir Benderlioğlu was born on 28 October 1979 in Ankara. At the Faculty of Fine Arts at Hacettepe University he first studied sculpture, then moved to the graphics department and graduated from there. For a time he served as the promotion coordinator of TRT.

He built a long-running collaboration with the director Alper Çağlar, whom he met in his Ankara years. He played the lead in Çağlar's films Bukalemun, 4 Saat, Kabakurgu, Panzehir and Dağ II, and was also in the cast of Camgöz. In Dağ II he portrayed Sergeant Major Batur Altınbilek; in Börü he took the role of Turan Kara in both the series and the film.

On television he played Burak in Kavak Yelleri and Ateş in Osmanlı Tokadı. He brought Piri Reis to life in the series Barbaroslar: Akdeniz'in Kılıcı; he also acted in the series Tuzak, Yalan and Gassal.

Benderlioğlu played Yılmaz Hancıoğlu in Yer Gök Aşk and Deli Dumrul in Deli Dumrul Kurtlar Kuşlar Aleminde, all Avşar Film productions.