Deniz Evin

Deniz Evin — Biography

Deniz Evin is an actor best known to Turkish television audiences as Umut in the series Beni Affet. Born in Kırşehir, he trained in acting at the Ankara State Conservatory of Hacettepe University and works across cinema, theater and television; he turned a career that began in daily series into a run of long-running television roles, and in the 2020s he returned to the screen in action and historical productions.

His first television work came in 2008 with Dolu Dizgin Yıllar. That same year he joined Unutma Beni, broadcast on FOX, appearing in its seasons from 2008 to 2015 and in the spin-off film Unutma Beni İstanbul. His real breakthrough was Beni Affet, which began on Star TV in 2011; as Umut he reached a wide audience, and he left the series in 2017. On the big screen he appeared in İhtiyar Kurtlar (2020).

Later he played Sefer in the ATV series Yalnız Kurt in 2022 and, in 2024, guest-starred in Kuruluş Osman as the Byzantine commander Konstantin. He is the brother of Devrim Evin, the lead actor of the film Fetih 1453. He married Gaye Turgut, an actress he met on the set of Beni Affet, in 2013.