Giray Altınok

Giray Altınok — Biography

Giray Altınok is a comic actor who both writes and performs, and he reached a wide audience with the BluTV series Prens. He wrote the show and took the lead, a role that won him Best Comedy Actor at the Golden Butterfly Awards in 2024. In 2026 he played Zafer in the film D.I.S.C.O., and news reports said he would voice Donkey in Shrek 5.

He studied sociology before acting: he graduated from the Sociology Department of Pamukkale University and trained at Akademi 35 Buçuk. He entered cinema in 2011 with Kaybedenler Kulübü and went on with Labirent, Vücut, G.D.O. Kara Kedi and Tut Sözünü. He contributed to both the script and the cast of Hababam Sınıfı Yaz Oyunları, a sequel to the classic Hababam Sınıfı series. On television he appeared in Güldür Güldür Show and, with Kerem Özdoğan, in the improvisation programme Buyur Bi'de Burdan Bak, and he has often written with Özdoğan. In 2019 he wrote and directed Bize Müsaade and acted in Aykut Enişte; in 2020 he showed a dramatic side as Cafer in Çatlak.

He was born in Erbaa, Tokat, and raised in Çorlu. He is reported to have founded Şaft Tiyatro with Cansu Diktaş in 2013 and to have married her in 2018.