Osman Sonant

Born

1 March 1979 (aged 47)

Place of birth

Istanbul

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie

Osman Sonant was born on 1 March 1979 in Istanbul. He began his acting training in 1997 at the Bahçelievler Municipal Theater as a student of Yılmaz Gruda, and the following year worked at Ferhan Şensoy's Ortaoyuncular Nöbetçi Tiyatro. He graduated from the performing arts department of the Istanbul University State Conservatory, which he entered in 1999; on stage he appeared in the Istanbul City Theater's Hamlet and in Kent Oyuncuları's Anna Karenina.

He first stepped in front of the camera with the film Kurtlar Vadisi: Irak. With the role of Mehmet in Yeşim Ustaoğlu's film Pandora'nın Kutusu he was chosen best supporting actor at the Altın Koza in 2009; in 2012, with Yangın Var, he received the best actor award at the Ankara International Film Festival.

On television, he became known to wide audiences with the character Yavuz in the series Leyla ile Mecnun. He played Orhan in Onur Ünlü's series Beş Kardeş and Sadık Murat Kolhan in Fi; he was also in the lead cast of the production Rise of Empires: Ottoman.

Sonant appeared in Avşar Film's 2016 film Memleket.