Berk Atan

Berk Atan — Biography

Berk Atan is an actor who moved into acting from modeling and has played Taner in TRT 1's Gönül Dağı since 2020. He first reached a wide audience as Savaş Mertoğlu in Güneşin Kızları, a role that won him fans in the Arab world as well as in Turkey.

His route ran through modeling contests. After finishing Sıdıka Rodop High School he is said to have played goalkeeper for a while at Altay before turning to modeling; in 2011 he was named a "promising" model at Best Model of Turkey, and in 2012 he won both that contest and Best Model of the World. He studied in the Acting department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Beykent University and took acting lessons from Dilek Çelebi. He first appeared on camera in 2013 in Herşey Yolunda Merkez as Selçuk Demircioğlu, and the same year played Pamir in Altındağlı. Then came the 39-episode Güneşin Kızları (alongside Burcu Özberk), Dayan Yüreğim, which ran for 13 episodes (as Atıf Sinan Şanal), and Cennetin Gözyaşları (as Selim Arısoy) with Almila Ada.

His breakthrough also brought awards: for Güneşin Kızları he was named the year's best breakthrough actor at the KTÜ Media Awards in 2015 and best actor at the Turkish Medical Students' Union "Yılın Enleri" awards in 2016. He is the nephew of Ebru Destan.