Ediz Hun

Ediz Hun — Biography

Ediz Hun was born on 20 November 1940 in Istanbul to a Circassian engineer father and a Rumelian-immigrant teacher mother. After Austrian High School he studied for a time in Germany, then, following a placement in a 1963 Ses magazine contest he entered while home for summer, launched his film career opposite Türkan Şoray and Hülya Koçyiğit in Genç Kızlar. Over the following decade he appeared in more than a hundred films and became one of Yeşilçam's sought-after leading men, before stepping back as the mid-1970s wave of erotic films rose and moving with his family to Norway, where he studied biology and environmental science at the universities of Oslo and Trondheim, graduating near the top of his class. Back in Turkey he went into business, starred in the TRT series Acımak in 1985, and taught ecology at Marmara and later Okan universities. He served as chief advisor to the Ministry of Environment from 1991 to 1993 and, elected to parliament for the Motherland Party in 1999, represented Istanbul until 2002. His film career was crowned with lifetime achievement honors from the Golden Orange (2001), Adana Golden Boll and Sadri Alışık (2012) and Çayda Çıra (2015) festivals, and he has also written books on Istanbul and environmental awareness. He married flight attendant Berna Hun in 1973 and they had two children, Bengü and Burak; now 85, he has remained in the public eye through 2026.