Nizam Namidar

Nizam Namidar — Biography

Nizam Namidar is an actor who has worked on stage, in front of the camera and at the microphone in both Germany and Turkey. He became popular as İzzet in his first series, Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz (2015). In March 2025 he joined the cast of Kızgın Topraklar.

Born in Istanbul, Namidar graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Technical University of Berlin. He trained as an actor in both Germany and Turkey: in 1985 he took part in amateur theater work in Berlin and moved into professional acting the following year, and the names he took private lessons from and worked with include Rutkay Aziz, Yücel Erten, Meray Ülgen, Nurhan Karadağ and Kerim Avşar. In 1987 he appeared in a German short film, Fuge. He also presented a radio program on Metropol FM, and his shows were published on his YouTube channel.

On television he played Cumali in Benim Adım Melek, Hikmet in Kara Tahta and Nizam in Ateş Kuşları. In cinema he played Selim Öztürk in the 2022 film Kurak Günler (released internationally as Burning Days), and he also appears in the casts of Zaferin Rengi (2024) and Çatlı (2026).