Toygun Ateş

Toygun Ateş — Biography

Toygun Ateş was an artist who worked across the theatre stage, cinema and television series as an actor, director, screenwriter and voice artist. His film roles include Tayyar Hoca in Siccîn (2014) and Üstün Hoca in Eski Sevgili (2017).

He completed his training in the Theatre Department of the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory and acted in a large number of stage plays. He began acting in cinema in 1976; the film Sıralardaki Heyecan from that year and Suçumuz İnsan Olmak from 1986 are among the early credits of his working life. In his work of the 2010s he played the Committee Chairman in Free Man (2011) and appeared in Düğün Dernek (2013) and Siccîn. On television he acted in the series Insider and in series such as Hercai, Muhteşem Yüzyıl and Aşk-ı Memnu.

The Istanbul-born artist died in Malatya on 19 February 2021.