Furkan Kızılay

Furkan Kızılay — Biography

Furkan Kızılay is an actor and singer best known for Emre, the character everyone calls "Havuç" (Carrot), in the series Çocuklar Duymasın, which he began playing as a child. The series is still attached to his name years later, and the press still mostly refers to him as the Havuç of Çocuklar Duymasın.

His career has moved along three tracks. On screen he rose with Çocuklar Duymasın, which began in 2002, and he took up Emre again when production of the series resumed in 2010. In cinema he appeared in Hannas: Karanlıkta Saklanan (2015) and Organik Aşk Hikayeleri (2017), and he worked on the same series with Bora Tekay and Tamer Karadağlı. Between 2017 and 2018 he acted in TRT 1's Aslan Ailem, and in 2018 he appeared with Adem Kılıççı in a Baydöner commercial. Besides films and series he also acts in commercials. In music he started in 2009 with the album Aşksın Sen and went on to release Her Şey Senle, Karamel Kokun, Ecem and Vura Vura.

He studied Information Technologies at Kadir Has University. On January 21, 2017, he competed on the celebrities' team in the TV8 contest Survivor Ünlüler-Gönüllüler. In December 2024 he proposed to Tutku Yılmaz in Paris and they married in June 2025, and in 2026 he announced that he and his wife were leaving Istanbul for a life close to nature.