Serkan Altunorak

Serkan Altunorak — Biography

Serkan Altunorak is a familiar face in Turkish television and theatre, in period and contemporary series alike, and also a voice actor who dubs Bugs Bunny into Turkish. He made his breakthrough as Taşlıcalı Yahya in Muhteşem Yüzyıl and reached his widest audience as Bülent in Cesur ve Güzel, which was also sold abroad. On stage he continues to work in the play Dalgakıran.

He graduated from the theatre department at Hacettepe University and then from the Mimar Sinan University conservatory, and also took language and acting training abroad. His first screen role was Unisex Bekir in Ayrılsak da Beraberiz in 1999. In 2006, during a Russian-roulette scene on the set of İmkansız Aşk, a gun believed to hold blanks turned out to be loaded; he was seriously injured and treated for a long time, and the series was taken off air. He entered cinema with Gomeda, followed by Kara Duvak (Merdan), Sınıf (Umut) and Melekler Korusun (a conservatory teacher). The next stretch brought Bir Günah Gibi (Suat) and Muhteşem Yüzyıl, then Evli ve Öfkeli, Aşkın Kanunu, Cebimdeki Yabancı, Bora in Evlilik Hakkında Her Şey in 2022, Erdem Karaca in Sana Söz, and Zeytin Ağacı.

More recently he appeared in Another Self, Wild Abandon and, in 2023, as Ozan Adar in The Blue Exile. On stage he has played in Kürklü Merkür (Mercury Fur) and Alışveriş ve S***ş, and he appeared in a Sezen Aksu music video directed by Fatih Akın.