Cem Uçan

Cem Uçan — Biography

Viewers know Turkish actor Cem Uçan as Aliyar Bey in Diriliş Ertuğrul (Resurrection: Ertuğrul) and as Bıçak Ali in Filinta. Besides acting he has worked in theater and as a music producer, and he is the father of the actor Batın Uçan. In recent years he has played the character Musa Taziyev in the series Ben Bu Cihana Sığmazam.

After training as an actor, he appeared on screen in 2012 in series such as Acayip Hikayeler, Bir Zamanlar Osmanlı Kıyam and Kurt Kanunu. In 2013 he took part in the series Küçük Kıyamet and in the film Su ve Ateş (as Sıtkı), and in 2014 he continued with Hıyanet Sarmalı, Sungurlar and Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu. His real breakthrough was Diriliş Ertuğrul, which began that same year: the character Aliyar left the show in 2017 by dying in the story. In 2015 he then played Bıçak Ali in Filinta. In 2018 he gave life to Serhafiye Ahmed Celaleddin Paşa in the series Serhafiye Payitaht Abdülhamid, broadcast on TRT.

On the big screen he played Musa in Tatlı Şeyler (2017) and Azat in Hürkuş: Göklerdeki Kahraman (2018); the same year he also appeared in Deliler and Vlad the Impaler. In January 2021 he received a best actor award. In November 2025 he drew wide press coverage for his favorable remarks about President Erdoğan.