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Tolga Çevik
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Tolga Çevik

Actor · 52 years old

Host of the Tolgshow Yıldızlar programme

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Age52
Birth dateMay 12, 1974
BirthplaceIstanbul
ProfessionActor, Comedian, Stage actor, Television presenter
Zodiac signTaurus
Eye colorBrown
EducationUniversity of Central Missouri, theatre training
SpouseÖzge Çevik

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Tolga Çevik — Biography

Tolga Çevik is an actor and television host best known for improvisational comedy. A familiar face of the Beşiktaş Kültür Merkezi (BKM) ensemble, he reached wide audiences as Sacit Kıral in the series Avrupa Yakası, then with his own shows Komedi Dükkanı and Tolgshow. In July 2026 he returned to Star TV with the program Tolgshow Yıldızlar.

He started in theater at high school; after failing the entrance exam of the Istanbul University State Conservatory he joined Yeditepe Oyuncuları, then studied acting at Central Missouri State University in the United States, graduating in 1996 and taking classes from Robin Williams. Back in Turkey he began his professional stage career at the Hadi Çaman Theatre, appeared in plays such as Küheylan and Kelebekler Özgürdür, and has worked with BKM since 2001. In film he became known through the Vizontele series and rose with Organize İşler, a role that earned him the Sadri Alışık award for best actor.

On television, Komedi Dükkanı (2007-2011) brought him Golden Butterfly awards. It was followed by Arkadaşım Hoşgeldin (2013-2015), Müdür Ne'aptın?, Tolgshow on FOX and Tolgshow Filtresiz on Exxen. He is married to the sister of comedian Cem Yılmaz, and the couple have two children.

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

Much of Tolga Çevik's film career runs through Yılmaz Erdoğan: Nazif in Vizontele, Nafiz in Vizontele Tuuba, Superman Samet in Organize İşler. In Erdoğan's crowded comedy-dramas Çevik is part of the ensemble; in Organize İşler he plays Samet, the failed comedian at the center of the story. In my view that is the turning point of his film work, showing that an actor from improvisation can carry a picture on his own. Co-writing Sen Kimsin and taking its lead is the next step in the same direction.

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Tolga Çevik's two Vizontele films are Yılmaz Erdoğan comedies about the arrival of television in a remote eastern town and about the 1980 coup seen from that town; Nazif and Nafiz belong to that small world. In Avrupa Yakası the same actor is in Istanbul, as Sacit Kıral in a sitcom about class friction between a traditional Nişantaşı family and a fashion magazine. In my view Çevik's work lets two ends of Turkey, the provinces and the glossy circles of the big city, speak in the same comic language.

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