Evren Erler

Evren Erler — Biography

Evren Erler is a character actor who moved from the theater stage to film and television. He won at the Sadri Alışık Theatre and Film Actor Awards two years running: Best Supporting Actor in Comedy at the 17th ceremony and Most Successful Actor of the Year at the 18th. On screen he is best known as Şirzat in Kalbimdeki Deniz, Kocabaş in Diriliş Ertuğrul and Çalayır in Destan.

He began acting training in the second half of the 1980s at the Sarıyer Public Education Center, studying acting, directing, dramaturgy and theater theory. Between 1986 and 2008 he worked as an instructor, actor and director at Shem-tk. His on-camera career opened in the early 2010s with Alemin Kıralı and Leyla ile Mecnun, followed by İnadına Yaşamak (2014) and Diriliş Ertuğrul (2015).

From 2016 he played Şirzat, the eldest son of Salman Ağa, in Kalbimdeki Deniz, and Volkan in Seni Kimler Aldı; in 2018 he appeared in the film Güvercin. Later work includes Cep Herkülü: Naim Süleymanoğlu, Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz (as Behram), Mavera, Ateş Kuşları (as Dr. Mete Çankırı) and Gönül Dağı (as Halim Yokuşoğlu).