Tuna Orhan

Tuna Orhan

Actor · 60 years old

Kahraman in the series Gönül Dağı

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Age60
Birth dateJanuary 21, 1966
BirthplaceIstanbul
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signAquarius
Eye colorBrown
EducationMimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory, Acting Department

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Tuna Orhan — Biography

Tuna Orhan is a theater-trained actor who became a familiar supporting face on Turkish television series, and who also composes music for the stage. He joined Gönül Dağı in 2025, playing the baklava-seller Kahraman.

He first appeared on stage in 1982 at the Bakırköy İdil Abla Children's Theatre. After graduating from the acting department of the Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory in 1992 he joined the Antalya State Theatre, where he worked from 1993 to 2008, resigning that year to concentrate on film and television. During his theater years he wrote music for twenty-five plays, among them Gol Kralı Sait Hop Sait, Kelebekler Özgürdür, Şarkıcı and Abdülcanbaz.

On television he began with Gurbetçiler in the mid-1990s and continued with Tatlı Hayat, Yarım Elma, Sonradan Görme, Körfez Ateşi, Azap Yolu and Deli Dolu. Elveda Rumeli (2007) brought him notice, followed by Gönülçelen, Hayata Beş Kala, Yalan Dünya, Yüksek Giriş and Sil Baştan; in Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz (2015) he played Servet. In cinema he appeared in films such as Memleket Meselesi and Çalgı Çengi and in the 2015 film Yolunda A.Ş: Çinçin Bağları Hikayesi; Baraj (2020) is among his recent work.

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

The sitcom order of Yalan Dünya, the period world of Elveda Rumeli filmed around Manastır, the neighborhood code of Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz: in all three Tuna Orhan settles into a large cast as a supporting character. Terzi Hasan in Elveda Rumeli is the easiest example; in my view this is exactly the kind of acting that holds series casts together.

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The Rumelian village of Elveda Rumeli between 1896 and 1907 and the small place in Vizontele Tuuba that knows nothing of the 1980 coup: Tuna Orhan's Terzi Hasan and Cahit stand beside ordinary people in the middle of great political change. Seen this way, the supporting parts stand for the people living at the edge of history.

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