Mustafa Uğurlu

Mustafa Uğurlu — Biography

Mustafa Uğurlu is a Turkish actor trained in the state theatres who later made his place in film and television too. His best-known screen work is Ağır Roman, a role that won him the Golden Orange for best supporting actor. On television he is remembered as Yusuf in İçerde and as Davut in the Netflix series Şahmaran.

The stage is the foundation of his career. Joining the state theatres in 1978, Uğurlu played from 1982 onward in the Bursa, Istanbul and Ankara companies in productions such as Lysistrata, Haydutlar and King Lear, and directed several plays in Adana and Ankara. In 1995 he went to England to study physical theatre. He moved to the screen in 1993 with Rıza Beyler; after Ağır Roman came the films Asansör, Kolay Para and Çamur. In the 2000s he appeared in series such as Zor Hedef, Anadolu Kaplanı and Kader, and in the next decade in Galip Derviş, Düşler ve Umutlar and Milat. İçerde brought him to a wide audience in 2016-2017; Çarpışma, Seni Çok Bekledim and Aldatmak followed, and he joined Şahmaran in 2023.

In 1996 he received the Sanat Kurumu Derneği prize for the play Gürültülü Patırtılı Bir Hikaye. He grew up in Bursa; his brother, the actor Ahmet Uğurlu, died in 2024 at the age of 71.