Berker Güven

Berker Güven — Biography

Berker Güven is a younger-generation actor who has moved from the stage into film and television, and who defined his screen career in the second half of the 2010s with the film Babam and the series Zalim İstanbul. In 2026 he returned to the stage in the lead of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Çok Küçük Bir İhtimalin Hikâyesi; in interviews he says theater is worth more now, in the age of artificial intelligence, than it was a decade ago.

Born in İzmir, he attended Özel Işıkkent Anadolu Lisesi and then studied Film and Television at İstanbul Bilgi University, and has been part of the Craft acting workshop since 2014. His first film role was in Babam (2017), where he shared the lead with Çetin Tekindor and Melisa Şenolsun as Arif. His first television work was Aleksi in Vatanım Sensin in 2016. His real breakthrough came in 2019 as Nedim Karaçay in Zalim İstanbul, a role that was widely praised, and the same year he appeared in the film Topal Şükran'ın Maceraları. He then played İskender Kayabeyli in Alev Alev (2020) and Somer in Üç Kız Kardeş (2022).

His stage work has earned recognition too: for his performance in the play Yen he received the Üstün Akmen Young Actor Award at the 22nd Sadri Alışık Theatre and Cinema Actors Awards. In November 2019 he was named Best Drama Actor of the Year at the Turkey-Azerbaijan Brotherhood Awards.