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Ege Aydan

Ege Aydan

Actor · 68 years old

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Age68
Birth dateJune 15, 1958
BirthplaceAnkara
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signGemini
Eye colorBrown
EducationAnkara State Conservatory, Theatre Department
SpouseSevilay Yılmaz

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Ege Aydan — Biography

Ege Aydan came up through the State Theatres as both a stage director and an actor, and the Turkish performer is also active on television and in film. On screen he is associated with productions such as Asmalı Konak, Kavak Yelleri and Behzat Ç., and in cinema with İstanbul Kanatlarımın Altında; he also paints. He is the son of the opera singer Sevda Aydan, who played Tijen in Kaynanalar, and the brother of the national basketball player Efe Aydan.

He began his arts training with ballet, gave it up because he was judged too tall, and graduated from the theater department of the Ankara State Conservatory. He worked as an actor at the Ankara State Theatre, moved to its directors' staff in 1990 and has directed many plays for the State Theatres; in 1994 he won a best actor award for Candan Can Koparmak and best production awards for the plays he directed, Aşk Mektupları and Yolun Sonunda. His television breakthrough came with Yarın Artık Bugündür, and in 1996 his role in İstanbul Kanatlarımın Altında drew wide attention in cinema.

Later he kept working in Binbir Gece, Kördüğüm, Dayan Yüreğim, Keşke Hiç Büyümeseydik, Gönül Dağı, Anadolu Leoparı and Çekiç ve Gül: Bir Behzat Ç. Hikayesi, and in 2025 appeared in the films Senden Kalan and Bugün Güzel. He has held more than thirty solo exhibitions of his watercolors.

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

The part of Şevket Ç. outgrows its series in Ege Aydan's work: the character that begins in Behzat Ç. Bir Ankara Polisiyesi returns in the 2011 film Behzat Ç. Seni Kalbime Gömdüm and again in Çekiç ve Gül: Bir Behzat Ç. Hikayesi in 2022. In my view a role that outlives its format is among the surest proofs of solid series acting.

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

In cinema Ege Aydan is best thought of alongside Mustafa Altıoklar: Hezarfen Ahmed Çelebi in İstanbul Kanatlarımın Altında, then Ağır Roman. A historical figure like Hezarfen is a natural job for someone from stage directing and acting, and the two consecutive Altıoklar films mark his most distinct period in cinema.

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