Erdinç Gülener

Erdinç Gülener — Biography

Erdinç Gülener is an actor and voice artist whose career runs from the theater stage to television series. He became widely known for playing Çağrı Bey in Alparslan: Büyük Selçuklu, and earlier for his characters in Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu and Kertenkele. He continues to work in the ensemble of the İstanbul State Theatre.

Schooled in İzmit, Gülener entered the Acting Department of Ankara University's Faculty of Languages, History and Geography in 1993 and graduated in 1997. That same year he passed the State Theatres exam and started at the Trabzon State Theatre; eight years later he moved to Ankara and from 2014 to Istanbul. On stage he appeared in plays such as Antigone, Hayvan Çiftliği, Muhteşem Gatsby and Yunus Emre, and he taught acting at his former faculty.

He began on television in 2007 as Payidar in Yeni Evli, and played Hasan Ferit Alnar in Ben Onu Çok Sevdim. In 2013-14 he played Inspector Kane in Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu, then Commissioner Ünsal in Kertenkele. On film he played Kenan in Bu İşte Bir Yalnızlık Var and Poyraz in Fakat Müzeyyen Bu Derin Bir Tutku, and in 2023 he appeared in a series about Saladin. In 2021 he married a fellow actor.