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Murat Daltaban

Murat Daltaban

Actor · 60 years old

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Age60
Birth dateMay 5, 1966
BirthplaceAnkara
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signTaurus
Eye colorBrown
EducationAnkara University Faculty of Languages, History and Geography, Theatre Department
SpouseÖzlem Daltaban

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Murat Daltaban — Biography

Murat Daltaban is an actor who has worked as much on stage as on screen, and an award-winning theater director. On television he is remembered above all for Kanber in Kınalı Kar and Ali Rıza in Hırsız Polis.

His route into the arts was roundabout: he left mining engineering at METU for theater studies at Ankara University, and his first stage role came in 1989 at the Ankara State Theatre. From 1993 he spent fourteen years with the Istanbul City Theatres, playing leads such as Iago in Othello and Jason in Medea. In 1999 he played the Armenian clarinettist Artin in Salkım Hanımın Taneleri, which won him the Best Supporting Actor prize at the Sadri Alışık Awards. Later credits include Menekşe ile Halil, Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne?, Poyraz Karayel and Kanunsuz Topraklar.

As a director his main base has been DOT Tiyatro, founded in Istanbul in 2005 with Özlem Daltaban and Süha Bilal. The company became the troupe that staged the most British in-yer-face plays in Turkey, and in the 2005-2006 season it received the Theatre of the Year award of the International Association of Theatre Critics. Festen earned a special prize from the Turkish Theatre Critics Association, and Gergedanlar played in Edinburgh in 2017 and won four Scottish critics' awards in 2018, Best Director among them. In 2021 he became general artistic director of the Nilüfer City Theatre; in 2024 he parted ways with Nilüfer Municipality.

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Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

For a quick look at Murat Daltaban, Pars: Kiraz Operasyonu is a good pick: his Haşhaşi is a trafficker passing as a respectable industrialist, and the chase runs to the Netherlands and France. Hırsız Polis plays out inside a car-theft gang; Daltaban is Ali Rıza there, and the tension between police and gang carries the show.

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History is prominent in Murat Daltaban's film work: Artin, an Armenian clarinettist, in Salkım Hanımın Taneleri, set in the 1940s on the eve of a heavy levy on non-Muslims, and Yakup Kadri in Cumhuriyet, the TRT production that follows Atatürk's political work. These two roles place Daltaban inside breaking points of social memory: one looks at the minority experience, the other at the founding of the republic.

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