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Emre Kınay
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Emre Kınay

Actor · 56 years old

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Age56
Birth dateMarch 5, 1970
BirthplaceIstanbul
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signPisces
Eye colorBrown
EducationMimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory, Theatre Department

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Emre Kınay — Biography

Emre Kınay was born on March 5, 1970, in Istanbul; his father was producer Feridun Kınay, his mother is theater actress Remziye Kınay, and his grandfather was Aleppo's last Ottoman military attaché, Arap Halit. His mother's side is Circassian and his father's Arab and Albanian; he is the older brother of composer Erdem Kınay. He took up theater in high school and graduated from Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory's theater department in 1995; as a student he joined Bakırköy Municipal Theatres at Zeliha Berksoy's invitation, then Dostlar Tiyatrosu. He still stages plays at Duru Tiyatro, which he founded in 2005, and won the Afife Theatre Award for Best Actor for Kara Sohbet (2006) and the Istanbul Film Festival's Best Actor award for İnşaat (2003). On screen he became known for Erkan Ağa in Yılan Hikayesi, Yusuf in Yeditepe İstanbul, and a father of three in İki Aile, later appearing in Güneşin Kızları, Kara Yazı, Sevgili Geçmiş, Tozluyaka and Dönence. In 2019 he ran for mayor of Kadıköy for the İYİ Party and finished third. He was married to actress Emine Ün from 2004 to 2009, with whom he has a daughter. Since January 2025 he has worked as a real estate agent in London.

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History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

The figure Emre Kınay plays most often on screen is the head of the household: Yusuf Gülseçen in Yeditepe İstanbul, a father of three daughters in İki Aile, Haluk Mertoğlu in Güneşin Kızları. From comedy to family drama he is the man at the center of the home, and in my view that type risks settling into habit once it has nothing new to say.

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

Kemal Bey inside the horror-comedy Okul, Ahmet in the psychological drama Kırmızı Oda, the family comedy İki Aile: Emre Kınay moves easily from genre to genre. Yet the cinema side of that range is narrow, and films such as Okul and Bayrampaşa: Ben Fazla Kalmayacağım are few beside his series work.

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