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Cemal Hünal

Cemal Hünal

Actor · 50 years old

Ares in the series Diriliş Ertuğrul

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Age50
Birth dateOctober 2, 1976
BirthplaceIstanbul
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signLibra
Eye colorHazel
EducationFilm and theatre training
Former spouseLale Cangal

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Cemal Hünal — Biography

Cemal Hünal was born on October 2, 1976, in the Maçka district of Istanbul and spent his childhood in a family apartment building his grandfather had built. After two years marked by disciplinary trouble at the French lycée Saint Benoit, his family sent him, at seventeen, to a summer school in Scotland called Gordonstoun; he then studied design in London before moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting. He trained in theater and film at UCLA Extension, Santa Monica College and the London Film School, taking jobs such as dishwashing and waiting tables to get by as a student.

His film career began in 2007 with Çağan Irmak's Ulak, and he became widely known the following year for Irmak's Issız Adam, opposite Melis Birkan. Around the same time he reached television audiences playing Kerim in the series Asi, filmed in Antakya. He went on to appear in productions including Bir Zamanlar Osmanlı: Kıyam, Osmanlı Tokadı and Paramparça, and played Ares in the TRT1 series Diriliş Ertuğrul.

He runs a restaurant in Nişantaşı and a beach club on Sedef Island. Hünal married Lale Cangal in 2011; the couple divorced in 2024.

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

The two films Cemal Hünal made with Çağan Irmak, Ulak and Issız Adam, mark the start of his career. Alper in Issız Adam is a well-off chef who has never known love and loves old records; a part built on inner life, in a film that nods to 1970s pop songs and Yeşilçam romances. In my view it is hard to find a role among Hünal's later work that falls so little into repetition.

Series Binger A series devotee tracking character arcs, cast chemistry and season pacing.

Alex Mertcan in Adanalı, Kaya Marten in Hudutsuz Sevda: years apart, Cemal Hünal's series return to the same world of action and crime. Both are stories that turn on feud, revenge and conflict. In my view this repetition never goes looking for the softer tone we see in Issız Adam, and keeps Hünal in the same range of toughness.

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