Okan Şenozan

Okan Şenozan — Biography

Okan Şenozan is an actor who spent roughly thirty years in the State Theatres company and combined stage work with television drama and voice-over. In recent years he has appeared on screen as Çaka Bey in Uyanış: Büyük Selçuklu and as Karabay in Barbaroslar: Akdeniz'in Kılıcı.

After attending Tevfik Fikret High School in Ankara he began voice work in 1986; in 1991 he graduated from the theater department of Ankara University and joined the State Theatres the same year. In the early 1990s he acted in productions of the Adana State Theatre such as Romeo ile Juliet, Ağrı Dağı Efsanesi and Sıkıyönetim; from 1997 he appeared at the Ankara State Theatre in Altona Mahpusları, Şahane Düğün and Ya Devlet Başa Ya Kuzgun Leşe. On television he played Sayhan in Bizim Evin Halleri, then took roles in Sahra, Unutma Beni, Beni Affet and Halka; in film he played Orhan in Don't Leave Me.

For his performance in the one-man play Bizim Yunus by Sönmez Atasoy he received the Sanat Kurumu best actor award in 2014, and that year he also performed Haydi Karına Koş at Teater 28 in Berlin. He speaks French very well and English well. In 2020 he retired from the State Theatres to work independently and took part in Dürrenmatt's Uyarca at Çankaya Sahne.