Orhan Aydın

Orhan Aydın — Biography

Orhan Aydın is an actor from the stage who has appeared in television series and feature films for many years. He is best known to wide audiences for playing Kenan Çekiç in Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu; the 2025 film Sıcak Büfe is among his later credits.

He came to the stage very early: as a middle-school student he won first place in an inter-school competition in İstanbul with a play he wrote and directed himself, and at 16 he became known through the TRT program Gülünüz Güldürünüz. Schooled in Sakarya, he began studying art teaching at Marmara University in 1983 without finishing the degree, and graduated from the theater department of the Mimar Sinan State Conservatory in 1992. From 1990 he worked at the Bakırköy Municipal Theatres, and in 2000 he founded Gayrettepe Oyuncuları, in which he acted in his own plays.

On television from the early 2000s he appeared in series such as Bir İstanbul Masalı, Yabancı Damat, Gümüş, Şöhret, Hırsız Polis, Arka Sokaklar and Sıla, continuing later with Huzur Sokağı, Elde Var Hayat, Ben Onu Çok Sevdim, Alın Yazım and Bahtiyar Ölmez. In cinema he took roles in films such as Zincirbozan, Vali, Veda, Hür Adam, Anadolu Kartalları, Oğlum Bak Git, Sabit Kanca and Reis; his first film and television work goes back to 1989.