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Serhat Tutumluer

Serhat Tutumluer

Actor · 54 years old

the series Teşkilat

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Age54
Birth dateJune 29, 1972
BirthplaceEskişehir
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signCancer
Eye colorHazel
EducationHacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory, Theatre Department
SpouseSenan Kara

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Serhat Tutumluer — Biography

Serhat Tutumluer was born on June 29, 1972, in Eskişehir, where he grew up. He began his university studies in sociology at Istanbul University in 1989 but completed his education at the Theatre Department of the Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory. Between 1995 and 1997 he worked at the Ankara State Theatre and later spent many years with the Kocaeli City Theatre. He is a co-founder of Talimhane Theatre in Istanbul, where he continues to appear on stage.

His screen career began in the mid-1990s, followed by television roles in series such as Çaylak, Sahra, Ezo Gelin, Umutsuz Ev Kadınları, Filinta, Vatanım Sensin and Bir Umut Yeter. His portrayal of Hazar in Hercai brought him wide recognition, and after Alparslan: Büyük Selçuklu he joined the cast of Teşkilat in 2025. In cinema he appeared in Cenneti Beklerken, Devrim Arabaları and Zeki Demirkubuz's Kıskanmak and Yeraltı. He won the Best Actor award at the 27th Istanbul Film Festival for Ara and at the 14th Sadri Alışık Awards for Devrim Arabaları. He is married to fellow actor Senan Kara and has a child.

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Their work through different eyes

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

Serhat Tutumluer's most demanding film work is, in my view, the pair he made with Zeki Demirkubuz: Halit in Kıskanmak and Cevat in Yeraltı. One is a drama that treats jealousy as one of the most dangerous human states, the other a dark film inspired by Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground; both are hard, inward material. In my view this is the best pair of films for weighing Tutumluer apart from the crowded casts of his series.

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

Turning points in Turkey's history are a stop Serhat Tutumluer returns to often on screen. In Vatanım Sensin, about the last Ottoman years and the aftermath of the First World War, he plays Costas Theodorakis; in Devrim Arabaları, the story of the first domestically built car, he plays İsmet; Filinta is an Ottoman-era detective series. In my view these make him an actor who lets us feel history's large events through side characters.

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