Erol Babaoğlu

Erol Babaoğlu — Biography

Independent Turkish cinema has found a familiar supporting player in Erol Babaoğlu, an actor with a theatre background. He won best supporting actor awards for Emin Alper's Kurak Günler (2022), at the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival and from the SİYAD awards, and for Atıl İnaç's Daire (2014) at the Ankara Film Festival. In recent years television has taken him to a much wider audience.

His route ran through the stage. He trained in acting at Şahika Tekand's Stüdyo Oyuncuları from 1996 to 1999, then performed with the Istanbul City Theatre and the Theatre Research Laboratory between 1999 and 2002. He appeared at the Theatre Olympics, the Epidaurus Festival and the Istanbul Theatre Festival, and worked with Beklan and Ayla Algan, Mehmet Ulusoy, Kenan Işık and Theodoros Terzopoulos. Red Speedo earned him the Yeni Tiyatro Dergisi award for best supporting actor. His film debut was Zeki Demirkubuz's Yazgı (2001), followed by Zincirbozan, Mutluluk and Yeşim Ustaoğlu's Araf.

In the 2020s television work became more frequent: Hudutsuz Sevda, Kızıl Goncalar, Gözleri KaraDeniz and HBO Max's Kaosun Anatomisi. In 2026 he joined Kanal D's Eşref Rüya as Ölü Yaşar. He also works as an administrator and trainer at the Theatre Research Laboratory.