Emre Kıvılcım

Emre Kıvılcım — Biography

Emre Kıvılcım was born on 2 September 1990 in Malatya and moved to Istanbul with his family around the age of ten. He trained as a chemical engineer and later completed a master's degree in occupational safety, but gave up engineering once acting became his focus; after a scholarship-funded course at the Sadri Alışık Cultural Center, he made his screen debut in the Kanal 7 television film Zeytinyağlı Yiyemem Aman.

He reached a wide audience playing Selim in the 2014 series Elif, whose popularity across Asia and Latin America led him to become the face of a clothing brand in Indonesia. He went on to appear in the series Adı Zehra, played Kemal in the 2019 film Kim Daha Mutlu, and took the role of raider Sungur in the 2020 film Türkler Geliyor: Adaletin Kılıcı. In 2021 he starred as the Khwarazmian ruler Celâleddin in the Turkish-Uzbek co-production Bozkır Arslanı Celaleddin, and in 2023 he played Mehmet Karlı in the drama series Veda Mektubu.

He met Uzbek actress Yulduz Rajabova on the set of Bozkır Arslanı Celaleddin; the couple got engaged in February 2026 and married within days of the engagement, before holding a large wedding celebration in Uzbekistan that May.