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Selim Bayraktar

Selim Bayraktar

Actor · 51 years old

Edip in the series Ufak Tefek Cinayetler

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Age51
Birth dateJune 17, 1975
BirthplaceKirkuk, Iraq
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signGemini
Eye colorBrown
EducationBaşkent University, Radio, Television and Cinema Department

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Selim Bayraktar — Biography

Selim Bayraktar is an actor born in Kirkuk who moved from the theater stage to television and is best known as the eunuch Sümbül Ağa in Muhteşem Yüzyıl. He drew attention abroad with Netflix's Rise of Empires: Ottoman, in which he played Çandarlı Halil Pasha, a role he carried over into the series Mehmed: Fetihler Sultanı. He is of Iraqi Turkmen background.

He began in theater. He spent his childhood in Kirkuk, came to Turkey with his family in 1987, settled in Eskişehir and then Antalya, and graduated from the theater department of the Ankara State Conservatory in 2000. He worked first at the Diyarbakır State Theatre and moved to the Antalya State Theatre in 2007, appearing in plays such as Othello, Sırça Kümes and Bay Kolpert and directing Cıbıl Kurt. He then moved to television: Erdal in Köprü in 2006, Mahmut Pasha in Bir Bulut Olsam in 2009, and Sümbül Ağa from 2011. Gecenin Kraliçesi, Ufak Tefek Cinayetler, Görünen Adam, Destan and Veda Mektubu followed, while on the big screen he appeared in films including Romantik Komedi 2: Bekarlığa Veda, Kırmızı, Aşk Sana Benzer, Vezir Parmağı, İstanbul Kırmızısı and Arada.

His stage work was recognized too: for Othello he won best male actor at the 4th Sadri Alışık Anatolian Theatre Actors Awards. He has kept his tie to the stage, and press reports say he is returning to the theater with a Shakespeare production.

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Selim Bayraktar's best-known roles are the in-between figures of palace and state: Sümbül Ağa in Muhteşem Yüzyıl, Çandarlı Halil Pasha in Rise of Empires: Ottoman and Mehmed: Fetihler Sultanı. In my view these roles together gather the palace official and the pasha around the throne: people who do not hold power directly but steer it.

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Selim Bayraktar's television career is closely tied to historical costume: Sümbül Ağa, Çandarlı Halil in two productions, Alpagu Khan in Destan. That is why his contemporary parts, Hakan in Gecenin Kraliçesi or Ziya in Veda Mektubu, are in my view the more intriguing; anyone who wants to see Bayraktar out of costume should look at those series.

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