Serhat Barış

Serhat Barış — Biography

Serhat Barış is an Istanbul-born actor whose path runs from the theater stage to television. The work that brought him to a wide audience was the role of Tristan in the historical series Diriliş Ertuğrul on TRT 1, and that character remains the one he is most often associated with.

His move into acting was not a conventional one. Barış finished his studies in horse training at Kocaeli University's Körfez Vocational School and worked for a time as a civil servant. He first stood out on stage in 2009: for playing Vanzetti in the play Sacco ile Vanzetti he received the Best Actor award at the Lions Theatre Awards in İzmir. In 2010 he left his civil-service post and began studying acting in the performing arts department of the Fine Arts Faculty at Dokuz Eylül University; on graduating in 2014 he settled in Istanbul.

He began his work in film and television with Diriliş Ertuğrul and has since taken parts in a few more films and series.