Cenk Uygur
Birthday: Born in 1970-03-21 in Istanbul, Turkey
Deathday: Alive
Cenk Kadir Uygur (born March 21, 1970) is a Turkish-American progressive political commentator, media host, attorney, journalist, and politician. Uygur is the creator of The Young Turks, an American left-wing, sociopolitical, progressive news and commentary program. Before beginning his career as a political commentator, he worked briefly as an associate attorney in Washington, D.C. and New York City. As a young man, Uygur supported social conservative positions but as his views evolved he began to identify as a progressive. Uygur also co-founded the progressive political action committee Justice Democrats along with Zack Exley, Saikat Chakrabarti, and Kyle Kulinski.
TV Credits
The Conversation
Character: Self - Host
Cenk Uygur sits down for quick but substantive interviews with political and cultural thought leaders from around the US and the world. Expect to see politicians from both sides of the aisle, media personalities, actors, directors, and more....
The Young Turks
Character: Host
Online American liberal/progressive political and social commentary program hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian...
Q: Into the Storm
Character: Self (archive footage)
A three-year investigation chronicles the evolution of “Q” in real time, with access to key players, along with an examination of how the anonymous character uses conspiracy theories and information warfare to influence politics....
Movie Credits
I'm Still Here
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
I'm Still Here is a portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, the film follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a hip-hop musician. The film is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads and explores notions of courage and creative reinvention, as well as the ramifications of a life spent in the public eye....
Mad As Hell
Character: Self
MAD AS HELL follows Cenk Uygur's transformation from unknown talk show host on local Public Access TV to an internet sensation with his online news show "The Young Turks," which has amassed over one billion views on YouTube. Once Cenk ventures from the internet into national television and lands the 6 PM time slot on MSNBC, his uncensored brand of journalism is compromised and Cenk becomes the nexus in the battle between new and old media....
Money Monster
Character: Self
Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio....
Contact
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality....
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Character: Self, host, The Young Turks
Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maverick American journalist I.F. Stone, whose long one-man crusade against government deception lives on in the work of such contemporary filmmakers and journalists as Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, David Corn, and Matt Taibbi....
How to Kill 14 People Without Saying a Word
Character: Self
This is a story of how the lips of America became sealed. How we stood by and let our minds be censored. How countless lives were lost in the name of comfort and correctness. This is how we killed fourteen people in San Bernardino, CA on December 2nd, 2015 without saying a single word....
By Day's End
Character: Himself (voice)
A lesbian couple's efforts to mend their deteriorating relationship are put on hold when a pandemic disease that causes insatiable hunger ravages the world around them....