Serdar Deniz

Serdar Deniz — Biography

Serdar Deniz is an actor, director and producer who grew up in Germany, became known in Turkey through historical series, and works on stage under ApplausHaus, the company he founded. His best-known television roles include Titus in Diriliş Ertuğrul and the assassin Edward Jorris in Payitaht Abdülhamid. Since 2023 he has played Michel de Montaigne across Turkey.

Born in Ankara, Deniz moved with his family to Cologne at the age of three and grew up there. He performed at the Arkadaş Theatre between 1990 and 1998 and at municipal theatres in Germany in 1994-1995, and in 1998 he graduated from the German conservatory “Theater der Keller”. After working in theatre and television in Germany he returned to Turkey and began appearing in films and series.

His screen career in Turkey reaches back to the film Yaralı Kurt (2000). In 2003 he played Beyto Ağa in Gurbet Kadını and İbrahim Paşa in Hürrem Sultan, and he played Yakışıklı (Levent Bozoklu) in Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu. From 2014 he took the role of the Templar Titus across four seasons of Diriliş Ertuğrul, and in 2018 he joined the cast of Payitaht Abdülhamid. In cinema he played Theodore in Adanış: Kutsal Kavga (2022). While performing in the five-times award-winning play “Montaigne”, he combines theatre production, directing and acting as the founder of ApplausHaus, a name meaning “House of Applause”.