Umut Oğuz

Umut Oğuz

Actor · 49 years old

Peyami in the series Ben Bu Cihana Sığmazam

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Age49
Birth dateJuly 2, 1977
BirthplaceAnkara
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signCancer
Eye colorBrown
EducationAnadolu University, Tourism and Hotel Management Department

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Umut Oğuz — Biography

Fiko in Adanalı is the role most closely identified with Umut Oğuz, a Turkish television and film actor, and in recent years he has played Peyami in Ben Bu Cihana Sığmazam and Şinasi in the ATV series Bahtiyar Ölmez.

He came to acting through the tourism industry. He studied tourism and hotel management at Anadolu University and sports academy studies at Marmara University, and while working as a hotel bartender he was moved into the animation team because people found him funny. Ahmet Gülhan discovered him, and in 1999 he went on stage, appearing in a number of theaters. He first appeared on screen in 2000 in Güneş Yanıkları and went on to work in many series. Adanalı in 2008 became the turning point of his career. In later years he appeared in three seasons of Kertenkele.

In cinema he started in 2006 with Umut Adası and Tramvay, and played the director Ulaş in Figüran. He also acted in a commercial in 2017. Born in Ankara, he spent his childhood and early schooling in İzmir.

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

Umut Oğuz's series gather in a vein that mixes action with comedy: Adanalı, Kertenkele, Bahtiyar Ölmez. The pace is high and danger is always softened with a joke. His best-known part, Fiko in Adanalı, comes from inside that mix. But tension that a joke keeps interrupting will not satisfy someone after hard action.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humor and heart.

To watch Umut Oğuz as a family, Papatyam and Yalancı Romantik are good choices: both are family comedies built on humor and can be watched with children. Adanalı is a crime and revenge story and suits older viewers better.

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