Barış Murat Yağcı

Barış Murat Yağcı — Biography

Barış Murat Yağcı came to television by an unusual route: from the basketball court to the modeling runway, and from there to the sets of series and films. Today he is known both for his acting and for his repeated appearances on the competition show Survivor. His main screen characters are Eymen in Kiralık Aşk, Bora in Şevkat Yerimdar and Demir in Sosyetik Gelin. Born in Alaçatı, he graduated from the International Relations department of Bahçeşehir University and also studied at İzmir Özel Türk Koleji and Şehremini Anatolian High School.

Sport came first. He played professional basketball for the Efes Pilsen sports club, but an injury ended that path. He then turned to modeling, and being named Best Fotomodel at the Best Model of Turkey contest brought him to the attention of producers. His first acting experience came in 2014 as Akın in Kocamın Ailesi, and around the same time he played a friend of Serenay Aktaş's character in the film Figüran. In 2015 he gave life to Eymen in Kiralık Aşk, and he then played Bora in Şevkat Yerimdar, which aired in 2017 and 2018. In the 2018 television film Sosyetik Gelin he appeared as Demir.

Alongside acting, competition programs became part of his path: he joined Survivor in 2020 and finished second, took part in Survivor 2022: All Star, and appeared again as a contestant in the 2025 and 2026 seasons. He is a cousin of Birce Akalay and Berke Özer, and as a second university degree he began studying sports management at Anadolu University.