Onur Büyüktopçu

Onur Büyüktopçu — Biography

Acting and hosting game and cooking shows go hand in hand for Onur Büyüktopçu, a Turkish television figure. He became widely known for playing Koray in the series Kiralık Aşk, and in later years for the food and competition programs he fronted. Alongside stage acting, he also works as a casting director and talent manager.

He spent his early years in Karşıyaka and then went to England for language and theater training, studying at the Academy of Creative Training in Brighton and the Act London Film Academy. His screen career began in 2003, when he played Yusuf in Lise Defteri and appeared the same year in a Shubuo commercial alongside Mete Horozoğlu and Mert Asutay. He later took guest parts in Yabancı Damat and Doktorlar; Fırtınalı Aşk, Tatlı Bela Fadime, Üç Tatlı Cadı and Kavak Yelleri also feature in his acting history. In cinema he appeared in Memleket Hikayeleri (2007) and Hürmüz Gelin (2009), and in 2010 he took a role in Güz Gülleri. Kiralık Aşk, in which he played from 2015 to 2017, brought him wide recognition.

After the series he moved in front of the camera as a presenter: he hosted the competition Yemekteyiz on TV8 from 2017 to 2019 and Damat Bayıldı on Show TV in 2019. In 2020 he presented Çarkıfelek and Gelinim Mutfakta on Kanal D during the same period.