Hakan Yufkacıgil

Hakan Yufkacıgil — Biography

For Uzun Yol, Hakan Yufkacıgil won the Best Actor award at the Antalya Golden Orange festival; the Turkish actor's path led from the theater stage to television and film. Often seen in period series, he played Surlu William in Kudüs Fatihi Selahaddin Eyyubi.

He began acting as a trainee at the Ahmet Vefik Paşa Stage of the Bursa State Theatre and completed his training in the theater department of Istanbul University State Conservatory. He first faced the camera in 2004 as Sadık in the Kanal D series Çemberimde Gül Oya, and later played Olgay in Akasya Durağı and Feyyaz in Eve Düşen Yıldırım. In 2010 he appeared opposite Şener Şen in Av Mevsimi and, the same year, in the stage play Birdy. He played Nahit in Gece and Ali Fuat in Yasak; his real breakthrough came as Sansar Cemil in the TRT 1 series Filinta, which made him better known to television audiences.

For his role as Fariz in Uzun Yol he was named Best Actor at the 50th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival; the film had drawn attention as a pre-nominee for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. Later work includes İskender in Cesur Yürek, Tayfun Uysal in Kızlarım İçin, Fuad Efendi in Payitaht Abdülhamid, Alp Hasanoğlu in Kefaret and Tekfur Valens in Kuruluş Osman. In cinema he has appeared in Beni Unutma, Hürkuş: Göklerdeki Kahraman, Deliler, Gülizar and Ahmet'in Türküsü. He married a fellow actor in 2020.