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Mustafa Uğurlu

Mustafa Uğurlu

Actor · 70 years old

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Age70
Birth dateNovember 25, 1955
BirthplaceKaraman
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signSagittarius
Eye colorBrown
EducationHigh-school graduate

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Mustafa Uğurlu — Biography

Trained in the state theaters, Turkish actor Mustafa Uğurlu later made his place in film and television too. His best-known screen work is Ağır Roman, a role that won him the Golden Orange for best supporting actor. On television he is remembered as Yusuf in İçerde and as Davut in the Netflix series Şahmaran.

The stage is the foundation of his career. Joining the state theaters in 1978, Uğurlu played from 1982 onward in the Bursa, Istanbul and Ankara companies in productions such as Lysistrata, Haydutlar and King Lear, and directed several plays in Adana and Ankara. In 1995 he went to England to study physical theater. He moved to the screen in 1993 with Rıza Beyler; in film he played Reis in Ağır Roman, Servet in Kolay Para and a clown in Sır Çocukları. In the 2000s he worked in many series, and in 2015 he played Asaf Demirci in Milat. In 2016-2017 he played Chief Yusuf in İçerde, then Selim Gür in Çarpışma and Tarık Yenersoy in Aldatmak, and he joined Şahmaran in 2023.

In 1996 he received the Sanat Kurumu Derneği prize for the play Gürültülü Patırtılı Bir Hikaye. He grew up in Bursa; his brother, the actor Ahmet Uğurlu, died in 2024 at the age of 71.

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Their work through different eyes

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

Mustafa Uğurlu's weightiest film work is Reis in Ağır Roman. In Mustafa Altıoklar's story of a neighborhood where poverty and violence are entwined, Uğurlu plays the ruthless force that corners the hero, and much of the film's tension rests on him. On television, in Yusuf Müdür in İçerde for instance, he finds it much harder to reach the same weight; the series writing gives him no such opposing pole.

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

For action, Mustafa Uğurlu has three addresses: the double game of İçerde, the one-season, 24-episode Çarpışma and the 20-episode historical action series Bir Zamanlar Osmanlı Kıyam. In all three someone else carries the story; Uğurlu works as the supporting player who adds weight to a scene. He does not set the tempo, but he leaves no hole in the cast.

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