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Çağlar Çorumlu
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Çağlar Çorumlu

Actor · 48 years old

Akif in the series Sekizinci Aile

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Age48
Birth dateDecember 4, 1977
BirthplaceAmasya
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signSagittarius
Eye colorBrown
EducationAnadolu University, Tourism and Hotel Management; Müjdat Gezen Art Centre
SpouseGaye Çorumlu

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Çağlar Çorumlu — Biography

Çağlar Çorumlu is an actor who came up through the stage to become one of the best-known faces of screen comedy. Viewers know him above all as the tracksuit-wearing Şevket Hoca of Güldür Güldür Show, as Yaşar Yüksel in Jet Sosyete and as Vedat in Ayak İşleri; in 2025 he played Akif in Sekizinci Aile.

Born in Merzifon to a family of teachers, he discovered acting in the university theater club while studying tourism and hotel management at Anadolu University. In 2000 he moved to Istanbul and attended the Müjdat Gezen Art Center's acting studio; his first professional stage was Kabare Taksim, which led to Yusuf Güdük in Yedi Numara. He worked at the Istanbul City Theatres from 2007 to 2013, then founded his own company, TiyatrOPS. His stage work earned him a 2012 Afife Theatre Award for Şark Dişçisi.

On the big screen he showed a different side beside the comedy: he drew praise as Aziz in Çağan Irmak's Prensesin Uykusu, appeared in Zeki Demirkubuz's Kader, Bulantı and Kor and in Serra Yılmaz's Cebimdeki Yabancı, won a Sadri Alışık Award for Pek Yakında, and played Zeki Müren in Arif V 216. In Erşan Kuneri he played Altın Oran. He won Golden Butterfly awards in 2017 for Güldür Güldür Show, in 2018 for Jet Sosyete and in 2023 for Ayak İşleri, and was named Comedy Actor of the Year by GQ Türkiye in 2022.

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Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humor and heart.

For watching Çağlar Çorumlu with the family, Kolonya Cumhuriyeti works: he plays mayor Peker Mengen in a light comedy in which an alien lands in a small town. Osmanlı Cumhuriyeti is an alternative-history comedy, and the two together make an easy weekend. Cebimdeki Yabancı puts friendships to the test with a phone game, so I would keep it for older children and adults.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Because Çağlar Çorumlu's comic identity weighs so heavily, his dramatic choices in cinema stand out: Zeki Demirkubuz's Kader and Ferzan Özpetek's Cebimdeki Yabancı try him in a tone far from Şevket Mircan in Güldür Güldür. Arif V 216, in which he plays Zeki Müren, places the performance somewhere between parody and impersonation. In my view the most interesting thing about his career is that, despite being a comedy star, he keeps the door open to these other tones.

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