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Tayanç Ayaydın

Tayanç Ayaydın

Actor · 47 years old

Hüseyin Cevher in the series Hayat Şarkısı

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Age47
Birth dateAugust 7, 1979
BirthplaceIstanbul
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signLeo
Eye colorBrown
EducationMimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Theatre Department
SpouseSally Ghalayini

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Tayanç Ayaydın — Biography

Tayanç Ayaydın was born on August 7, 1979, in Istanbul; after Özel Doğa Koleji, he attended Tercüman High School and İstek Foundation High School, then trained in theater at Mimar Sinan University. He first became known in 2004 as Doctor Kahraman in the series Aliye, and won Best Actor awards at both the Locarno Film Festival and the Antalya Golden Orange for his performance in Ben Hopkins's Pazar - Bir Ticaret Masalı (2007). His widest fame came from the military drama Sakarya Fırat, which ran for four seasons from 2009 to 2013, as the non-commissioned officer Osman Kanat.

In later years he appeared in Zeytin Tepesi (2014), Hayat Şarkısı (2016-2017), Kırgın Çiçekler (2017-2018), Tek Yürek (2019) and Yeni Hayat (2020), and played Nikos Sampson in the historical series Bir Zamanlar Kıbrıs/Kıbrıs Zafere Doğru (2021-2022) and Önder Koçak in Tozluyaka (2022). He was briefly married to actress Bulut Köpük in 2011 and has been married to American teacher Sally Ghalayini since 2015. In summer 2025, after private messages of his were made public, he denied the harassment claims that followed, conceding he might have acted thoughtlessly, and was dropped from a production he was filming at the time amid the ensuing backlash.

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Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

If you come to Tayanç Ayaydın for action, start with Sakarya Fırat. The military series, set at a gendarmerie post in Şırnak and running four seasons, has him as Osman Kanat, a sniper and specialist sergeant, with attacks on the post and fighting at the story's core. Yeni Hayat also mixes action, drama and romance but was short-lived. The real pace is in Sakarya Fırat.

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

Tayanç Ayaydın's cinema is a separate vein from his television. 11e 10 Kala is Pelin Esmer's first narrative feature, a small-scale drama set in an old apartment block around a newspaper archive. Kalbin Zamanı, written by Onur Ünlü and directed by Ali Özgentürk, is a hotel story stretching from the 1950s to middle age. Pazar-Bir Ticaret Masalı belongs to the same line. In my view this choice of quiet, author-driven films stands clearly apart from the general drama of his series.

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

After Sakarya Fırat, Tayanç Ayaydın's series career scatters across family and youth dramas such as Kırgın Çiçekler, Hayat Şarkısı, Zeytin Tepesi, Yabani and Tozluyaka, plus the short-lived Yeni Hayat. In my view no character in this later stretch is as defined as Osman Kanat, who carried four seasons. For a series viewer the key stop remains Sakarya Fırat.

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