Engin Hepileri

Engin Hepileri — Biography

Engin Hepileri is an actor and theatre director whose career runs from the stage to television and cinema. Wide audiences know him as Sinyor Seyfi in the military comedy Emret Komutanım, Oğuz in the youth series Kampüsistan and Hakan Eren in İntikam; in Yağmur: Kıyamet Çiçeği he played the singer Kazım Koyuncu.

Born in Istanbul, Hepileri met the stage through State Theatres productions during his years at Cağaloğlu Anadolu Lisesi. He entered the Istanbul University State Conservatory in 1996 and worked as a research assistant there while doing his master's degree between 2002 and 2005. Joining Kent Oyuncuları in 1998, he played in about twenty of its productions, winning the Afife Theatre Awards' New Generation Special Award in 2004 for Inishmore'lu Yüzbaşı and the Sadri Alışık supporting-actor prize in theatre comedy in 2010 for Cimri. He turned to directing in 2008 with Israel Horovitz's Kuyruk and later taught at Academy Kenter and his university.

On screen he shared the Adana Golden Boll jury's collective performance award in 2011 with the cast of Celal Tan ve Ailesinin Aşırı Acıklı Hikâyesi, and in 2015 received the Sadri Alışık Ayhan Işık Special Award for Çalsın Sazlar and Yağmur: Kıyamet Çiçeği. More recent credits include Doğduğun Ev Kaderindir, Prestij Meselesi, ANKA and Zaferin Rengi, in which he plays Rauf Orbay. He presented a culture-arts programme on TRT Okul and hosted TRT 1's Altın Petek contest in 2016-2017. He is married to actress Beyza Şekerci.