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Mert Fırat

Mert Fırat

Actor · 45 years old

Sonra Gözler Görür (Netflix series)

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Age45
Birth dateJanuary 10, 1981
BirthplaceAnkara
ProfessionActor
Height1.81 m
Zodiac signCapricorn
Eye colorBrown
EducationAnkara University Faculty of Languages, History and Geography, Theatre Department
Spouseİdil Fırat

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Mert Fırat — Biography

Mert Fırat is a stage, film and television actor who also writes. He is currently involved in newer work such as Sonra Gözler Görür and Hakikatin Ölümü, and is known as a co-founder of Istanbul's Moda Sahnesi and DasDas theaters and for his stage work in Açık İlişki with Binnur Kaya.

He once studied radio and television in Sweden, and graduated from the Theatre Department of Ankara University's Faculty of Languages, History and Geography, and moved to Istanbul in 2006 after winning the audition for Oyun Atölyesi's Hırçın Kız (The Taming of the Shrew). He started on television with Bizim Evin Halleri and became known through Binbir Gece, followed by Yersiz Yurtsuz and Kapalıçarşı. The turning point was Başka Dilde Aşk (2009), which he co-wrote with İlksen Başarır and starred in; he then played Erdem in Atlıkarınca, also from his own script.

Later came Kelebeğin Rüyası, İntikam, Bir Varmış Bir Yokmuş, Ufak Tefek Cinayetler, Arif V 216 and Kefaret; after Binbir Gece he devoted more time to theater. He is a UNDP Goodwill Ambassador, launched the online mutual-aid platform Needs Map (İhtiyaç Haritası), co-founded Sanat Mahal in Bursa and is a co-founding partner of the impact investment fund Etki GSYF.

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Their work through different eyes

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Mert Fırat's most personal film work is Başka Dilde Aşk: he co-wrote it with İlksen Başarır and shares the lead, in the story of a young man who can hear but has chosen silence and a woman who talks to strangers all day at a call center. Atlıkarınca, again with Başarır, grew from his own script. In my view Fırat's voice is heard most where writing and acting meet in these films.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Mert Fırat's films keep returning to places where a society looks at itself. In Kelebeğin Rüyası he plays Rüştü Onur, a poet clinging to poetry in wartime Zonguldak; Devrimden Sonra imagines a socialist revolution reaching ordinary lives through twelve separate stories; Dedemin İnsanları deals with a child's question of belonging in a family of Cretan origin. In my view these casts make him an actor of films with ideas more than of popular series.

Series Binger A series devotee tracking character arcs, cast chemistry and season pacing.

Mert Fırat became known on television through Binbir Gece; his later series have had shorter runs: Aşk ve Gurur closed after six episodes, and İntikam is a crowded cast in an adaptation of a foreign series. In my view Fırat's television lags behind his cinema and stage work.

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