Selçuk Yöntem

Selçuk Yöntem — Biography

Akif Selçuk Yöntem was born on 13 July 1953 in Eyüpsultan, Istanbul, the fourth of five children to a mother from Erzurum and a father from Sakarya; his father's army postings moved the family through Malatya, Ankara and Afyon during his childhood. Following Şişli Terakki High School, he took his theatre degree at the Ankara State Conservatory in 1976 and entered the Ankara State Theatre company a year later.

Stage awards followed for Dört Mevsim, Peynirli Yumurta and Deli Dumrul, and he won a Praiseworthy Director prize for staging Gürültülü Patırtılı Bir Hikâye; he also performed in TRT Istanbul's radio plays. Atlı Karınca brought him to television in 1978, and across some thirty later films and series he became best known as Aslan Akbey in Kurtlar Vadisi and Adnan Ziyagil in Aşk-ı Memnu, while C Blok and Devrim Arabaları earned him SİYAD and Sadri Alışık acting honours.

Beyond 400 episodes of the quiz show Büyük Risk, he stepped in to host Kim Milyoner Olmak İster? in 2014 after presenter Kenan Işık's stroke, continuing until 2017 before moving to Milyonluk Resim. A 2020 honorary prize came from the Frankfurt Turkish Film Festival, and lately he has been on stage in the musical Don Quixote and the play Amadeus.