Barış Kılıç

Barış Kılıç — Biography

Turkish actor Barış Kılıç has built his reputation on long-running series such as Güllerin Savaşı, Yasak Elma and Kızılcık Şerbeti. Since 2022 he has played Ömer Ünal in Kızılcık Şerbeti, a role that drew great acclaim, and he remains in the cast in 2026.

He was born in the Arguvan district of Malatya and moved with his family to Istanbul at the age of five. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Istanbul University, studied languages for a time in the United States and took a master's degree at Yeditepe University. He acted in commercials during his university years and came to television in 2004 with Kanal D's Bütün Çocuklarım, followed by Leylan, Vazgeç Gönlüm, Aynadaki Düşman and Sakarya Fırat. His breakthrough was Levent in Adını Feriha Koydum; he then played Burak in Merhaba Hayat and appeared in Lale Devri.

In 2014 he shared the lead of Güllerin Savaşı with Canan Ergüder and Damla Sönmez as Ömer Hekimoğlu, and made his cinema debut the same year as Berk in Seni Seviyorum Adamım. Later he played Emre in Oyunbozan and Aslan Akbaş in Evlat Kokusu, and Kaya Ekinci in Yasak Elma, a role that widened his audience further. He left Yasak Elma in June 2021 and joined Kızılcık Şerbeti the following year.