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Özgür Çevik
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Özgür Çevik

Actor · 45 years old

Toprak in the series Kırgın Çiçekler

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Age45
Birth dateMay 27, 1981
BirthplaceAnkara
ProfessionActor
Height1.82 m
Zodiac signGemini
Eye colorBlue
EducationIstanbul University Faculty of Letters, Philosophy Department

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Özgür Çevik — Biography

Özgür Çevik is an actor and singer best remembered on screen as the Greek groom Niko Angelopoulos in Yabancı Damat, the first Turkish series sold to Greece, which gave him a following in both countries. More recently he has played Lucas in Kuruluş Osman, Can in Modern Kadın and Demir Arıkan in Ben Leman, and he has been added to the cast of Binbir Gece Masalları.

His start was tied to music: he first appeared on screen in 2004 through atv's talent contest Akademi Türkiye and released his debut album Düş-ün-ce in 2008. As an actor, after Yabancı Damat he took the lead in Gece Sesleri as Seyhan Akalın, and played Levent in Vali and Ferit in Mazi Kalbimde Yaradır. His main leading period was Toprak in Kırgın Çiçekler, which aired on atv from 2015 to 2018. He then played Koray Demirağ in FOX's İyilik and, in 2023, Count Leon in Alparslan: Büyük Selçuklu. On stage he has appeared in the musicals Romantika and Damdaki Kemancı.

He graduated from the philosophy department of Istanbul University's Faculty of Letters in 2007. In October 2024 he married Hatice Kartoğlu, his partner of four years.

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Their work through different eyes

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Özgür Çevik's work with Onur Ünlü is the corner of his career that breaks from the usual series run. Tolga in Leyla ile Mecnun asks for comic playing inside an absurdist parody, and İtirazım Var is Ünlü's murder comedy. Since Çevik's weight sits in romantic series leads, this pair is, in my view, the clearest proof that he can carry another tone.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

From the Greek groom Niko in Yabancı Damat to Komutan Lucas in Kuruluş Osman and Kont Leon in Alparslan: Büyük Selçuklu, Özgür Çevik's roles often stand for the foreigner or the other. In the first, the figure is a likeable groom carrying the prejudices of an intercultural marriage; in the historical epics he is the enemy on the Byzantine and Crusader side. In my view the same mold is far flatter in the second use.

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