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Ali Düşenkalkar

Ali Düşenkalkar

Actor · 65 years old

Süleyman in the series Cennetin Çocukları

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Age65
Birth dateSeptember 18, 1961
BirthplaceNicosia
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signVirgo
Eye colorBlue
EducationMimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory

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Ali Düşenkalkar — Biography

Ali Düşenkalkar began as a stage actor and director born in Cyprus and grew into one of Turkish television and cinema's familiar character actors. His theater background pairs with a strong voice and diction craft: in foreign releases he gave the Turkish voice to V, the lead of V for Vendetta. He currently plays Süleyman in the TRT 1 series Cennetin Çocukları.

He grew up in Nicosia, took part in anti-war street theater as a teenager, and moved to Istanbul in 1979 for conservatory training. After graduating from the Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory in 1983 he joined the Istanbul State Theatre, appearing in productions such as Macbeth, Amadeus and Kuvayi Milliye, and he directed plays in Adana, Bursa, Trabzon, Ankara and İzmit. On screen he first appeared in Yaz Evi in 1993; Reha Erdem's Kaç Para Kaç and Korkuyorum Anne, followed by Ezo Gelin, Osmanlı Cumhuriyeti, Devrim Arabaları, Hanımın Çiftliği and Dila Hanım, marked his career. Later he took roles in Kayıtdışı, Gönül Dağı and Ömer.

For Korkuyorum Anne he won best actor at the Ankara Film Festival and the Sadri Alışık Awards. Besides acting he has taught diction and drama and served as general artistic director of the Bursa city theaters, a post he left in April 2026. He is the older brother of actress Munis Düşenkalkar.

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Their work through different eyes

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Reha Erdem is the clearest line in Ali Düşenkalkar's cinema: four films across twenty years, from A ay to Hayat Var. In Korkuyorum Anne he plays Ali, whose accident leaves him without his memory, and the part brought him best actor awards. In my view staying in one director's world for so long shows that Düşenkalkar's theater discipline suits Erdem's tragicomic tone.

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Men of religion and learning recur in Ali Düşenkalkar's roles: Kabak Hafız in Hanımın Çiftliği, Cinci Hoca in Muhteşem Yüzyıl Kösem, Başrahip August in Hep Yek 2. Seen socially, these are figures of different faiths and different eras, and Düşenkalkar's voice and diction suit them. The risk is repetition: in my view the ordinary Ali of Korkuyorum Anne is the clearest work outside that mold.

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