Metin Akdülger – Biography, Height, Life Story, TV Series

Metin Akdülger (born 10 April 1988) is a Turkish actor. Akdülger, who took part in amateur plays and made short films during his youth, attended acting classes at his school due to his interest in acting while continuing his education at Koç University. He continued to take part in amateur theatre plays at the university. He joined the Craft Theatre team in 2012. His professional theatre career began in 2012 with his role in the play Tape.

Name	Metin Akdülger
Date of Birth	10 April 1988
Birth Place	Bursa, Turkey
Nationality	Turkish
Education	International relations
College	Koç University
Years active	2012–present
Currently Dating	Cansu Dere

Metin Akdülger Biography

In 2013, he entered television and began starring in the popular TV series Medcezir. In the same year, he made his cinematic debut with the movie Bensiz, in which he portrayed a footballer who suffers a stroke. After this experience, Akdülger returned to the theatre by joining the cast of Mary, which went on stage in 2014 at Didaskali Theatre. In 2015, he starred in the period series Analar ve Anneler. In 2016, he took part in the play Kahramanlar Hep Erkek, an adaptation of Duygu Asena’s autobiography Kadının Adı Yok.

In the same year, he landed his first leading role in a TV series by portraying Murad IV in the second season of the historical show Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem. After this series, Akdülger had a solo performance with the play Baldan Karanlık in 2017, which was well received by the critics. With his performance in the play, he received the “Promising Actor of the Year” at the 2nd Üstün Akmen Theatre Awards. In the same year, he appeared in the movie Kırık Kalpler Bankası.

Akdülger had a leading role in My Favourite Fabric, which premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. He then continued his career with roles in the crime fiction series Şahsiyet in 2018 and the fantasy series Atiye in 2019. In addition to feature films, Akdülger has played in many short films throughout his career and has been a judge in many short film competitions. In late 2019, he formed the band Journers with Burak Yeşildurak and started making music.

Metin Akdülger was born on 10 April 1988 in Bursa. His family was Turkish immigrants from Thessaloniki and Skopje, and he spent his childhood in a farmhouse. He realized that he had an interest in acting while taking part in small plays in high school and shooting short films with his friends. But instead of enrolling in the conservatory, he decided to study international relations and political science “to learn what is happening in the world”. He moved from Bursa to Istanbul to study international relations at Koç University.

When he was in the third year of his studies, he learned that Yıldız Kenter was teaching at his school and started to attend his classes. He was Kenter’s assistant for a while. The first play he took part in at the university was an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. He wanted the role of Tybalt in the play but ended up portraying Romeo. After taking Kenter’s classes, he decided to try method acting, and in 2012 he took acting lessons from Merve Taşkan. In the same year, he started working with Craft Theatre.

His first professional theatre debut came in 2012, with a role in an adaptation of Stephen Belber’s Tape, which was directed by Tevfik Şahin. He portrayed the character of Vince on stage. Akdülger says that since he was the youngest child in his family, he had a lonely childhood. He liked painting when he was young, and during his high school years, he played bass guitar and formed a rock band with his friends. He played American football at university. In May 2020, he said that he had been practicing veganism for 6–7 months.

He says that he has not had a TV at home since his university years. Akdülger who is interested in writing besides acting stated in a 2018 interview that he had prepared three short plays and two long ones, yet he believed he take them to the stage in the future as a producer, rather than as an actor or director. In May 2020, during an interview for XOXO The Mag, Akdülger said that he had been working on a script with a friend from Bursa for the past 3 years. Akdülger has had roles in many short films besides feature films.

He has appeared in many videos on Hamamcıoğlu’s YouTube channel. Together with his high school friend, Burak Yeşildurak, he founded the music band Journers and together they released a single titled “Döngüm” in December 2019. Akdülger said that forming a band called Journers was on Yeşildurak’s mind for a long time, and the band was founded when they made the song “Döngüm” to support each other during a difficult period in their lives.

Since they needed a more professional person with a knowledge of music to help with live performances, their high school friend Mehmet Can Erdek joined the band and Akdülger said that new people might join them in the future. The band released the song “Bırak Aksın” on 9 March 2020, for which an animated music video was released on 14 May. On 30 April 2020, he released the songs “Aşk Canavarı” and “İstiyorum Elbet” with the same band. Akdülger says that he does not self-identify as a musician but he “enjoys” making music. He contributes to the songs as a vocalist, songwriter, and bassline composer.

Akdülger was a judge in the Univision section of the 2018 KısaKes Film Festival. In 2019, he curated the selection of short movies from Turkey at the 18th !f Istanbul International Independent Film Festival. In the same year, he was a judge in the national fiction category at the 20th International İzmir Short Film Festival. He also served as a judge at the 1st Umursuyorum (I Care About) Short Animated Film competition organized by Bahçeşehir University and Turkey Spinal Cord Injury Association, with whom he had worked while preparing for his role in Bensiz. In 2020, he voiced the digital version of Abdussamed Delen’s novel Ahşap Kulübe, which was published by the association.

Movies And TV Series

Series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013–2015	Medcezir	Orkun	–
2015	Analar ve Anneler	Tahsin	–
2016–2017	Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem	Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem	Main role
2018	Şahsiyet	Ateş Arbay	–
2019	Tek Yürek	Desyus	–
2019–2021	Atiye	Ozan	–
2021–2022	Kulüp	Orhan Şahin	–
2022	Dünyayla Benim Aramda	Kenan	–

Movies

Year	Title	Role
2013	The Mask	Police
2014	Bensiz	Necip
2015	Farewellcome	Young man
2016	Yok, Sağ Ol	–
2016	Tereddüt	–
2017	Kırık Kalpler Bankası	Turan
2019	My Favourite Fabric	Dreaming man
2019	The Ruse	Benjamin
2020	One-Way to Tomorrow	Ali
2020	İnsanlar İkiye Ayrılır	Barış

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