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Umut Kurt

Umut Kurt

Actor · 45 years old

Servan in the series İnci Taneleri

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Age45
Birth dateApril 17, 1981
BirthplaceErzincan
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signAries
Eye colorBrown
EducationMüjdat Gezen Art Centre
SpouseMelisa İnci

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Umut Kurt — Biography

Umut Kurt is an actor who came from the stage and has worked across a wide range of film and television; he is best known for the film Beynelmilel and the series Hatırla Sevgili. Alongside acting he is noted for playing the bağlama and singing folk songs. In 2026 he joined the series İnci Taneleri as Servan.

He began on stage in amateur companies in 1997 and, after graduating from the Müjdat Gezen Art Center, joined the Beşiktaş Cultural Center actors, appearing in plays such as Hisseli Harikalar Kumpanyası, Festen, Pornografi and Jekyll & Hyde. He first faced a camera in 2003 in Metropol Kabusu. In cinema he became known through Organize İşler, Beynelmilel, Güz Sancısı, Kavşak, Labirent and Çanakkale: Yolun Sonu; for Kavşak he received the Promising Actor award at the International Golden Boll Film Festival in 2010. On television he appeared in Gönülçelen, Tatar Ramazan and Beni Böyle Sev (as Mazhar).

From 2017 he played Captain Celal in Payitaht Abdülhamid, and in later years he worked on Karakomik Filmler, Bağlılık Aslı, Zeytin Ağacı, Kusursuz Kiracı, Hayat and Asaf. He married Melisa İnci in 2022.

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Their work through different eyes

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

Umut Kurt has two ends in cinema: the dark humor of Cem Yılmaz's Karakomik Filmler, and the auteur cinema of Zeki Demirkubuz's Hayat and Semih Kaplanoğlu's Bağlılık Aslı. In my view this variety shows an actor from the stage who can carry both a quick, comic rhythm and a slow, serious tone. At whichever end, he comes across as an actor who fits the world the director has built.

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

Umut Kurt's work keeps returning to Turkey's political history: occupied Istanbul in 1920 in Ya İstiklal Ya Ölüm, the tense climate before 1955 in Güz Sancısı, and the recent past running from the late 1950s to 1980 in Hatırla Sevgili. As Edip Bey, Ferit and Yaşar Çiftçioğlu, Kurt appears in three different slices of those periods. Together, in my view, they show Turkish screens wanting to keep the past at the center of the story rather than in the background, and Kurt as one of the recurring faces of that wish.

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