Attila Klinçe

Attila Klinçe — Biography

Attila Klinçe (Macedonian spelling Atila Klinče) was born on 30 October 1958 in Gostivar and is a Macedonian stage and screen actor of Turkish descent. He graduated from the Faculty of Drama at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in 1982 and then completed specialist training at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Hacettepe University. That same year he began his career as an actor at the Skopje Turkish Theatre. He served as its director from 2003 to 2006, was appointed director again in 2008, and resigned in July 2017. In 2011 he completed a master's degree with a thesis titled "The Life and Art of Orhan Pamuk", and he teaches Effective Speech and Diction at the Faculty of Drama.

He has appeared in more than seventy plays, in roles such as Macbeth, Enkidu, Laertes, Creon and Ganya. He won the young actor and best actor awards in 1982, the Turkish Press Awards actor of the year prize in 2003, the best foreign actor prize at the Kosovo theatre awards in 2004, and the best actor prize at the Voydan Chernodrinski festival in 2005.

His films include Tetoviranje (1991), Before the Rain (1994, as Sefer), Anka Kuşu (1996), Dust (2001), Bitter Cherry (2020) and the 2025 film DJ Ahmet, in which he plays the muezzin. On television he appeared in Elveda Rumeli, Balkan Düğünü, Son Yaz-Balkanlar 1912 and Prespav.