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Ali Sürmeli

Ali Sürmeli

Actor · 67 years old

Celo Ağa in the series Eşref Rüya

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Age67 years old
Birth dateApril 7, 1959
BirthplaceSolhan
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signAries

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Ali Sürmeli — Biography

Ali Sürmeli was born on 7 April 1959 in the Solhan district of Bingöl to a family of Zaza origin, with roots in a village in the Varto district of Muş province. His father worked as a postal official, and the family's postings took them through several towns of eastern Anatolia during his childhood. He graduated from the theatre department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University's State Conservatory in 1985, after which he performed with the State Theatres of Adana, Ankara and Istanbul as well as with Sokak Tiyatrosu and Dostlar Tiyatrosu, later directing a few productions of his own. He made his film debut in 1983 in a picture directed by Halit Refiğ and took his first leading role in 1995 in a film directed by Tülay Eratalay. Sürmeli has since appeared in more than thirty films; his role in Sokaktaki Adam brought him two awards in 1996, and he won a supporting-actor prize at the Golden Orange festival in 2000 for Filler ve Çimen and an Afife Theatre Award in 2012 for Antigone. He is best known to television audiences for his character in Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu. After suffering a brain hemorrhage in the autumn of 2020, he returned to acting and went on to appear in the series Adım Farah, Kuruluş Osman and, in 2026, Eşref Rüya.

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Their work through different eyes

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

From Müstesna in Vezir Parmağı to Nedim in Güneşi Gördüm and Haydar in Mucize 2: Aşk, Ali Sürmeli appears in both the comedy and the heavy drama of Mahsun Kırmızıgül. A director returning to the same actor this often suggests that much of Sürmeli's screen face comes from this partnership. His place in Derviş Zaim's six-story political drama Filler ve Çimen reminds us, in my view, that he is wanted outside that world as well.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Ali Sürmeli's Kırmızıgül films trace a social line: the Kurdish family leaving its village because of conflict in Güneşi Gördüm, prejudice in Mucize 2: Aşk. Sürmeli sits inside that line, as Nedim and Haydar, one of the dependable faces of dramas about the countryside and exclusion.

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