Berk Cankat
Birthday: Born in 1984-05-09 in Ankara, Turkey
Deathday: Alive
Berk Cankat (born 9 May 1984) is a Turkish actor and graphic designer. His first television experience was with Sana Bir Sır Vereceğim on Fox TV. In this series, he portrayed the character of "Savaş" which had fantastic powers and controlled minds with his gaze. After making a name for himself, he joined the Medcezir series as a guest actor and brought the character of "Cem" to life. After becoming well-known in Turkey, in summer 2014 he got a role on Star TV's series Güzel Köylü playing the character of "Cemal". Cankat shared the leading role with Gizem Karaca, Mehmet Ali Nuroğlu and Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan. However, the series ended on 17 June 2015. In November 2015, he was cast as "İskender (Alex)" on the historic series Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem, produced by Tims Productions for Star TV. In January 2016, Cankat won an Elle Style Awards as Actor of the Year. In 2017, he was cast in a leading role on Yıldızlar Şahidim opposite Özge Gürel.
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Güzel Köylü
Character: Cemal Alkan
A beautiful girl from Istanbul moves to a small village and that changes her life....
Medcezir
Character: Cem
Yaman, who lives in the suburb of Tozludere (Istanbul), is arrested and put in jail with his brother because his brother decided to steal a car at a petrol station. Until that day he tried to change his destiny by working hard to earn a good life. That evening he was unwillingly introduced to crime and his clean dossier was tainted. He meets a rich lawyer, Selim Serez....
Sana Bir Sır Vereceğim
Character: Savaş Yapıcı
A mother whose daughter has been kidnapped and a father who has lost his wife come across five children with different extraordinary powers. Though they all came from completely different lives, the unlikely team must become a family to protect themselves....
Yıldızlar Şahidim
Character: Aras
Aras is a pop star who has won the love and admiration of the whole country. June is an ordinary neighborhood girl who dreams of becoming a singer, in love with her desperately. There are innumerable obstacles such as glory, fame, class difference to come together. But in a concert, Aras and June find themselves among many people, and they realize that the real obstacle between them is Arist's father Fikret and his mother Zeynep who disappeared years ago....
Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem
Character: Şehzade İskender (Yahya)
Tells the legendary story between the Sultan of Kosem and Ahmed I....
Gülizar
Character: Murat
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Aslında Özgürsün
Character:
Berna and Belgin are two 40-year-old women who oppose the rules imposed by society and men. These women, who live different lives from different environments but have to struggle with similar problems, are in search of freedom and identity....
Bir Deli Rüzgar
Character: Uğur
Melike Candan a star in the 80s, now cleans toilets at a bar where one days he meets Gökçe Yücel, who has big hopes for the future....
Sıfırıncı Gün
Character: Mert
Seven special ops cops and their leader chase the organized crime leader Ejder. Their lives are permanently altered when they inevitably get closer to him....
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Atatürk 1881 - 1919
Character: Ali Fuat Cebesoy
A biopic focusing on to the childhood and the early years of the military career of the founder and the first President of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk....
Atatürk II 1881 – 1919
Character: Ali Fuat Cebesoy
Mustafa Kemal had just begun his journey after proving himself in 1915 at the Gallipoli front. He would go on to face major battles on the eastern front against the Russians and later against the British in Syria, ultimately becoming the only Ottoman officer not to lose a battle during WW1. However, despite all his success, he would encounter an unexpected challenge upon his return to Istanbul....