Özgün Çoban

Özgün Çoban — Biography

Besides acting in television series and film, Turkish actor Özgün Çoban has credits as a director. Audiences know him from the long-running series Beni Affet, from productions such as Yüksek Sosyete and Kızlarım İçin, and more recently from his role as Tayfun Salıncak, Piraye's brother, in the series İnci Taneleri.

He trained at the Ankara State Conservatory of Hacettepe University and spent the second half of his third year at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. After graduating he appeared in various plays in Istanbul, then returned to Ankara for the series Deniz Yıldızı (2009), where his screen career began. In 2011 he joined the cast of Beni Affet and stayed with the series until 2015; in 2016 he joined the cast of Yüksek Sosyete. He appeared in Arka Sokaklar, O Hayat Benim, Yüksek Sosyete and Ver Kaç, and played Alper in Kızlarım İçin (2017) on Kanal D. In cinema he played Samuel in the 2019 film The Door and the character Müdür in Dijital Esaret (2020).

In a 2016 interview with Habertürk he described the actor as the director's puppet. Speaking about İnci Taneleri in 2024, he said that playing Tayfun was great fun.