Rüzgar Erkoçlar

Rüzgar Erkoçlar

Actor · 40 years old

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Age40
Birth dateMarch 26, 1986
BirthplaceIstanbul
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signAries
Eye colorBrown

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Rüzgar Erkoçlar — Biography

Starting out in television commercials, Turkish actor Rüzgar Erkoçlar moved into series and film and is best remembered as Foto Fato in the series Emret Komutanım and its film of the same name. He has also worked as a model and DJ. He was born Onur Rüzgar and was registered at birth under the name Nil.

His screen career began at ten with advertising films. In 2002, at fifteen, a Molped commercial made him nationally known, and that same year he appeared in Seni Yaşatacağım, followed by Bütün Çocuklarım in 2004; Foto Fato then brought him into the mainstream. Later credits include Üvey Aile, Elif, Hesaplaşma, Maskeli Balo, Çakıl Taşları and Yamak Ahmet, and on the big screen Baba 1.5 and Öğrenci Kafası: Soygun. After Suadiye High School he studied film acting at TÜRVAK, hosted the program Sine Show for a while, and in 2010 appeared with Cem Yılmaz in a Türk Telekom advertisement.

In a newspaper interview published in February 2013 he said he had undergone gender transition and began using the name Rüzgar. He appears as himself in the award-winning 2022 documentary Blue ID.

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