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Cenk Ertan
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Cenk Ertan

Actor · born 1970

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Birth date1970
BirthplaceGermany
ProfessionActor

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Cenk Ertan — Biography

Turkish actor and former model Cenk Ertan has worked in television series and feature films since the early 2000s. Born in West Germany, he is known among other roles for Faruk, one of Pala's men, in Kurtlar Vadisi, Kudret Taşdelen in Umutsuz Ev Kadınları and Mehmet in Bordo Bereliler Suriye.

During his modeling years he appeared in the music videos for Demet Sağıroğlu's Arnavut Kaldırımı, Ajda Pekkan's Eğlen Güzelim and İzel's Galibi Sen. His first step as an actor came in 2003 with the series Alacakaranlık. In 2004 he played Faruk in Kurtlar Vadisi and Cemal in Haziran Gecesi, followed by Cem Akman in Ihlamurlar Altında, Cemal again in Ödünç Hayat and Yılmaz Aydın in Parmaklıklar Ardında. In the following years he played Aycan Demirkan in Çemberin Dışında and Bora in Aşk ve Ceza, and stayed on screen as Kudret Taşdelen through three seasons of Umutsuz Ev Kadınları. He played Oktay Atabey in Sil Baştan in 2014 and Cemal Tibet in Şehrin Melekleri in 2015.

He has also appeared in feature films: Kedi Arif in Hep Yek 2 and Mehmet in Bordo Bereliler Suriye, and he was in the casts of Ver Kaç and Kayseri Aslanı: Çin İşi in 2017 and Bordo Bereliler 2: Afrin in 2018. In 2023 he appeared in Kudüs Fatihi Selahaddin Eyyubi.

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Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

Cenk Ertan's action work rests on two series from the early 2000s. In Kurtlar Vadisi, Faruk, one of Pala's men, is one of the street-level faces of the mafia world Polat Alemdar infiltrates, and he works in the supporting cast of the show's hard-edged confrontations. His first series, Alacakaranlık, is a crime and suspense adventure with a crowded cast including Uğur Yücel, Kenan İmirzalıoğlu and Tuncel Kurtiz. Both show him not as a lead but as a team player who helps carry the pace.

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Over two decades, Cenk Ertan's series career has run along the line of a reliable supporting player in large casts. He played Kudret Taşdelen through three seasons of Umutsuz Ev Kadınları, but that series was built on the stories of five women; Cem Akman in Ihlamurlar Altında also stays on the edges of the love knot between Yılmaz, Elif and Filiz. Even when these characters have an arc, they rarely come near the center of the story. Şehrin Melekleri, where as Cemal, a commissioner on the verge of retirement, he sets up a special unit, could have been the rare series to put him at the head of the team; it failed to find its audience and closed early.

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