Yılmaz Meydaneri

Yılmaz Meydaneri — Biography

Stage, cinema, television and voice work have all been part of the more than forty-year working life of Turkish actor Yılmaz Meydaneri. Audiences know him best as Hakkı Bafralı in Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu (Valley of the Wolves: Ambush), a role he played from 2007 to 2016 through every season of the series. He continues to take on new projects.

He began theatre training at the Ankara State Conservatory in 1977-78 and completed it in 1985 in Istanbul, at what is now the Istanbul University State Conservatory. He first appeared before a camera in 1979, playing a journalist in Korkusuz Korkak. Between 1980 and 1988 he acted in more than twenty plays at private theatres, and in the 1988-89 season he joined the Istanbul City Theatres with Buzlar Çözülmeden. Köprüden Görünüş, Koca Sinan, Bir Yaz Dönemi Gecesi Rüyası and Fermanlı Deli Hazretleri are among the plays he has performed; he also took part in children's plays and in the Ankara State Opera and Ballet productions of Tosca and Rigoletta.

On television he appeared in İz Peşinde, Küçük İbo, Kurtlar Sofrası, IV. Osman, Şefkat Tepe and Nizama Adanmış Ruhlar, followed later by Nöbet, Payitaht Abdülhamid and Barbaros Hayreddin: Sultanın Fermanı. In cinema he acted in Ölümcül İçgüdü, Posta Kutusu and Direniş: Karatay, and he did voice work on Ölümle Dans and Kollama.