Deniz Gürzumar

Deniz Gürzumar — Biography

Deniz Gürzumar is an actor who carries on rap music alongside his screen work. Television viewers know him best as Barış in the Show TV series İçerde, while on the music side he released his first album, “Son”, in spring 2021. He has also appeared in the films Muhteşem Üçlü and Hedefim Sensin and in the series Ramo, and he keeps working on new projects.

His career began with music. Born in Ankara, he moved to Istanbul in 2004, started helping the rap group Antisistem in 2005, and in 2006 recorded his first rap vocal on “Durma” with Mehmet Kerim. That same year he began working with Pit10 and prepared many solo and guest tracks under the Olympos Records name, performing at events in Ankara, İzmir, Istanbul and Antalya. He entered acting on September 13, 2006, with Gülpare on Show TV and played a one-episode part in Gece Gündüz. In 2008 he both acted in and composed the music for the play Aşk Yalan Söyler at the Plato-In theater, took second place in the Miller Music Factory contest, and played his first lead in Esrarlı Gözler, the film about the life of Müslüm Gürses.

In the years after that, series such as Kayıp Şehir, Merhamet, Beni Böyle Sev and Yazın Öyküsü raised his profile on screen; Galiçya İşgal Altında is also among his credits. He is a graduate of the theater department of the Haliç University Conservatory.