Serhat Barış

Serhat Barış — Biography

Serhat Barış is a stage-trained actor whom television viewers know as Tristan in Diriliş Ertuğrul, still his best-known work in front of the camera. He came to acting from a civil-service job and a horse-related vocational course, through a late but deliberate decision.

He first studied horse training at Kocaeli University's Körfez Vocational School and for a time worked as a civil servant. His first big result on stage came in 2009, when his Vanzetti in the play Sacco ile Vanzetti won him Best Actor at the Lions Theatre Awards in İzmir. In 2010 he left the civil service and began studying acting in the performing arts department of Dokuz Eylül University's Faculty of Fine Arts, graduating in 2014 and moving to Istanbul. His first important television job was TRT 1's historical series Diriliş Ertuğrul. He has since taken part in a few more films and series.