Yusuf Akgün

Yusuf Akgün

Actor · 42 years old

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Age42
Birth dateSeptember 11, 1984
BirthplaceIstanbul
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signVirgo
Eye colorBrown
EducationYeditepe University Faculty of Fine Arts, Theatre Department

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Yusuf Akgün — Biography

Yusuf Akgün, born in Istanbul, is an actor with more than twenty years in television, film and theater. He is best known for playing Koray Onat in the series Adını Feriha Koydum, a role that also brought him viewers in Bulgaria. In 2026 he played Fikret in the film Yellow Letters.

As a student at Bilge Kağan High School he played Lysander in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 2003 he won a scholarship to the Theatre Department of Yeditepe University's Faculty of Fine Arts, and in 2004 he worked as Ferhan Şensoy's assistant at Ortaoyuncular. On Engin Cezzar's recommendation he took the role of Ruhi in his first film, Balans ve Manevra (2005). On stage he appeared in 2011 in Dennis Kelly's Orphans (Öksüzler).

On television he began with Hepsi 1 (Korkut) and Derdest (Boğaç Yıldırım) and reached a wide audience in 2011-12 with Adını Feriha Koydum. Around that time and afterwards he played Turhan in the film Su ve Ateş, Orhan Soyer in Cennetin Gözyaşları and Alper in the film Acı Tatlı Ekşi. In the 2020s he played Mert in Aşk Mantık İntikam, Arda Dağhan in Yargı and Tufan in Geleceğe Mektuplar.

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