Gürkan Uygun

Born

27 May 1974 (aged 52)

Place of birth

Izmit

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie

Gürkan Uygun was born on 27 May 1974 in İzmit. Coming from a family of Georgian origin, Uygun was born in the city where his father had gone to work as a barber. He was introduced to theatre in his high school years and began performing on amateur stages in 1990. In 1993 he settled in Istanbul, trained at the Dormen Theatre and graduated from the theatre department of the Istanbul University State Conservatory.

In the mid-1990s, while performing at the Dormen Theatre in the plays Muhteşem İkili, Arapsaçı and Komik Para, he also began appearing on television; he acted in the series Tatlı Kaçıklar, Yılan Hikâyesi and Deli Yürek. Joining the Kurtlar Vadisi series, he introduced himself to wide audiences with the character Memati Baş, whom he played for nine years.

In later years he played Serhat Hakeri in the series Kaçak and Halil Halit Bey in Payitaht: Abdülhamid. He played Hasan Sabbah in Uyanış: Büyük Selçuklu, and in Teşkilat he brought to life first the character Yıldırım and then Efkar. He also appeared in a few episodes of Muhteşem Yüzyıl in the role of Mimar Sinan.

Uygun played Gazi Magosa in Avşar Film's 2016 film Bizans Oyunları.