İsmail Demirci

İsmail Demirci — Biography

On television, Turkish actor İsmail Demirci is known for playing both contemporary and historical characters. He is remembered above all as Erkan in Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu and as Kuzey Mollaoğlu in Kuzey Yıldızı İlk Aşk. He now plays Gedik Ahmet Pasha in Mehmed: Fetihler Sultanı, and returned to the big screen in May 2026 with Portekiz Aşkı, alongside Cansu Dere.

The child of a family that emigrated from Bulgaria, he grew up in Ankara and graduated from the Theatre Department of the Anadolu University State Conservatory in 2009. He first faced the camera in 2010 in Türkan, followed by Anneler ile Kızları, Mor Menekşeler and Ben Onu Çok Sevdim. Reaksiyon is described as a turning point in his career, and Fabrika Kızı, Serçe Sarayı and Babamın Günahları came next. In period productions he played Kemankeş Kara Mustafa Pasha in Muhteşem Yüzyıl Kösem and Prince Orhan in Mehmed: Bir Cihan Fatihi. He took the role of Galip in Çarpışma, and in 2019 he moved into a leading role for the first time with Kuzey Yıldızı İlk Aşk.

In cinema he appeared in Tut Sözünü, Babaların Babası and Posta Kutusu, winning Best Actor at the Krajina Film Festival for the last of these. In later years he took parts in the series Yalancılar ve Mumları, İyilik and Ben Bu Cihana Sığmazam. He married fellow actor Hande Soral in 2017, and they have a son.