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Ushan Çakır

Ushan Çakır

Actor · 42 years old

Mehmet in the series Kara Yazı

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Age42
Birth dateMay 23, 1984
Birthplaceİzmir
ProfessionActor
Height1.75 m
Zodiac signGemini
Eye colorBrown
EducationIstanbul University State Conservatory

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Ushan Çakır — Biography

Ushan Çakır was born on May 23, 1984, in the Karşıyaka district of İzmir. He trained as an actor at Istanbul University's State Conservatory and attended several acting workshops abroad; performing in private theater productions, he received a number of Turkish theater honors, including the Sadri Alışık, Afife Jale and Theatre Writers' Association awards.

He began his screen career in 2005 with the series Belalı Baldız and played the character Damat Ferit in Gece Gündüz in 2008. He moved into film in 2011 with Çağan Irmak's Dedemin İnsanları, and gained wide recognition that same year as Arda in Leyla ile Mecnun, though he left the series after both his and co-star Ezgi Asaroğlu's contracts were terminated following a physical altercation between the two. His performance in the 2012 film Uzun Hikaye earned him the Best Actor award at the 20th Odessa International Film Festival. In the years that followed he appeared in the series Kurt Seyit ve Şura, Kara Ekmek, Muhteşem Yüzyıl Kösem, Masum Değiliz and Avlu, and portrayed Zaganos Pasha in the docudrama Rise of Empires: Ottoman. He plays the character Mehmet in the Kanal D series Kara Yazı.

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

Onur Ünlü has given Ushan Çakır different jobs: Arda Akdemir in Leyla ile Mecnun and Okan 2 in Celal Tan ve Ailesinin Aşırı Acıklı Hikayesi. In my view Ünlü's world opens a playground quite unlike the grave bearing of his period series.

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Hezarfen Ahmed Çelebi in Muhteşem Yüzyıl Kösem, Zaganos Pasha in Rise of Empires: Ottoman, Salih Bozok in Ya İstiklal Ya Ölüm: Ushan Çakır plays real names from three different ages of history, the seventeenth-century court, the fifteenth-century conquest and the War of Independence of 1920. In my view this line also shows that television tells the past mostly through palaces, wars and statesmen.

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