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Şafak Sezer

Şafak Sezer

Actor · 56 years old

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Age56
Birth dateOctober 10, 1970
BirthplaceAnkara
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signLibra
Eye colorBrown

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Şafak Sezer — Biography

Erol Şafak Sezer, known mainly for comedic roles, works as a Turkish actor, screenwriter and director. Born on October 10, 1970, in the Sincan district of Ankara, he made his stage debut in 1989 in Haldun Taner's Eşeğin Gölgesinde at Ankara Halk Tiyatrosu and also performed at Ankara Ekin Tiyatrosu. In the 1990s he built a following through stand-up shows and series such as Sıdıka and Baskül Ailesi, and won wider recognition after winning the game show İner misin Çıkar mısın?, hosted by Boran Kaya. In film, after playing Deli Veli in Vizontele and Kuna in G.O.R.A., he became a comedy icon playing Ercüment in the Hababam Sınıfı series, Tezcan in the Maskeli Beşler films and the fake priest Fikret in Kutsal Damacana. Writing and directing the Kolpaçino series, in which he also starred as Özgür, marked another turning point in his career, continuing through Kolpaçino 4 4'lük in 2023. On television he was praised for playing Aslan Kıral in Alemin Kıralı and Erman Kuzu in Türk Malı. In 2013 he apologized to Prime Minister Erdoğan for supporting the Gezi Park protests. In 2026, after twenty years away, he returned to the stage in the play Karanlıkta Kumpas and continued in film with Ketenpere: Dalavere.

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

In Kolpaçino 3. Devre Şafak Sezer writes, directs and stars, and rebuilding the earlier film's characters around a mixed-up phone call feels to me more like stretching the series than renewing it; critics were largely negative too. The first film, Kolpaçino, holds together better, with seven people squeezed into a single night. The trouble lies less in Sezer's comedy than in the fatigue of a sequel.

Series Binger A series devotee tracking character arcs, cast chemistry and season pacing.

In Türk Malı, Şafak Sezer's Erman carries half of a sitcom that finds a twenty-year marriage's weariness both sad and funny. That two-person rhythm with Binnur Kaya is, in my view, where his comedy breathes more easily than in crowd entertainments such as Maskeli Beşler: Kıbrıs.

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

In Ketenpere, whose screenplay Şafak Sezer wrote, Kalender is an extra who dreams of his own casting company; Kolpaçino opens instead with a rich young man setting up a casino in his parents' empty house. In both films the story is Sezer's, and he writes men from opposite ends of society; but Kalender, hovering at the edge of cinema, is in my view the more heartfelt of the two.

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