Sarp Levendoğlu

Sarp Levendoğlu — Biography

Sarp Levendoğlu is an actor and director whose television work spans military comedies and period dramas. Audiences know him as Levent in Emret Komutanım, Ali in Küçük Ağa, Ender Yoranel in Ölene Kadar and the Byzantine emperor Romanos IV Diogenes in Alparslan: Büyük Selçuklu. He joined Arka Sokaklar in 2025 as Barış Bozoğlu.

Born in Ankara, he moved to Istanbul with his family after middle school and started acting at six in the productions of his uncle, the director Mustafa Altıoklar. After Saint-Benoit High School he studied visual communication design at Bilgi University, then, unhappy with the program, switched to the acting department of Istanbul Kültür University, where he graduated. His early work was in youth and military series: Lise Defteri, Çınaraltı, O Şimdi Asker and Emret Komutanım, on which he also stepped behind the camera, later directing for Gece Gündüz and Emret Komutanım: Yeniden. Later he took on Kabadayı Akif in Mor Menekşeler, Haydar Bozkurt in Savaşçı and, on film, Savaş Türkyılmaz in Deliormanlı. After Alparslan came Gecenin Ucunda and Teşkilat.

He married his Küçük Ağa co-star Birce Akalay in 2014, and the couple divorced in 2017. For a period he lived away from Istanbul, in Datça.