Yavuz Bingöl

Born

7 October 1964 (aged 62)

Place of birth

Istanbul

On Avşar Film

appeared in 2 movies and 1 series

Yavuz Bingöl was born on 7 October 1964 in Istanbul. He is the son of Yılmaz Bingöl, a literature teacher, and Şahsenem Akkaş, a folk poet known as Şahsenem Bacı. Because of his father's postings, he attended primary school at five different schools in Konya, Istanbul and Ankara; as a middle school student he entered the French horn-piano department of the Ankara State Conservatory.

In his music career, he was the lead singer for seven years of the group Umuda Ezgi, which he founded in 1986 with Nihat Aydın. In 1995 he moved on to solo work with the album Sen Türkülerini Söyle; Baharım Sensin, Üşüdüm Biraz and Kül are some of the albums he released in this period. He gave concerts in Turkey as well as abroad.

He began acting in 1998 with the film Cumhuriyet and played the character Eyüp in the film Üç Maymun. On television he took the roles of Kara Eşref in the series Eşref Saati, Zafer Erbay in Sevda Kuşun Kanadında and Adem Seyhan in Teşkilat; in the production Âkif he brought Mehmet Âkif Ersoy to life. On stage he played the lead in the Sadri Alışık Cultural Center productions 72. Koğuş and Keşanlı Ali Destanı.

Bingöl appeared in the Avşar Film productions Karagül (Fırat Mercan), Salkım Hanımın Taneleri - Part 2 and Salkım Hanımın Taneleri - Part 1.