Ali Ersan Duru

Ali Ersan Duru — Biography

To wide audiences, Turkish television and film actor Ali Ersan Duru is best known as Beybolat (Albastı) in Diriliş Ertuğrul. Trained in the theater, he returned to the stage in 2026 in the play Cevriye, after roughly seventeen years away.

He decided to become an actor at eighteen. While studying public finance at Osmangazi University in Eskişehir he performed as an amateur with the university theater group; after graduating he moved to Istanbul, took basic acting classes at Diyalog Sanat in 2008 and then continued his stage training with the Şahika Tekand Studio actors. His professional career began with the TRT 1 sitcom Başrolde Aşk. In 2012 he played Mehmed Ali in the film Çanakkale 1915; in 2013 he appeared as Korkmaz in Yağmurdan Kaçarken and joined the lead cast of Bugünün Saraylısı. Şahane Damat, Aşk Zamanı and Diriliş Ertuğrul followed.

In Sultan of My Heart, filmed in 2018, he played Sultan Mahmud; the Turkish-Russian co-production paired him with the Russian actress Alexandra Nikiforova and drew strong viewing figures in both countries. After 2019 he kept working in productions such as Sen Anlat Karadeniz, Sen Çal Kapımı and Kudüs Fatihi Selahaddin Eyyubi.