Okan Bayülgen

Born

23 March 1964 (aged 62)

Place of birth

Istanbul

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie

Okan Bayülgen was born on 23 March 1964 in Cihangir, Istanbul. He studied at Galatasaray High School for six years and finished high school at Şişli High School in 1984. After briefly studying law and economics at the University of Tours in France, he returned to Turkey and graduated from the theater department of the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory in 1989.

After graduating he started work at the State Theaters and, as the institution's youngest director, staged various plays between 1989 and 1994. During the same period, in 1991, he entered radio programming at Kent FM. On television, he became known with the late-night program Gece Kuşu, broadcast on atv; he continued this line with midnight talk shows such as Televizyon Çocuğu.

In cinema, he took his first important role as Lagari Hasan Çelebi in the film İstanbul Kanatlarımın Altında. With the role of Salih in the film Ağır Roman, he was chosen Best Actor at the Sadri Alışık Actors Awards in 1997. He also stepped in front of the camera in the films Komser Şekspir and Sınav.

Besides being a showman and an actor, he also works in theater and music video directing, production, voice-over and photography.

Bayülgen appeared in Avşar Film's 2001 film Hemşo.