Tuncer Salman

Tuncer Salman — Biography

Starting out as a stage performer, Turkish actor Tuncer Salman became familiar on screen in supporting roles. Wide audiences know him as Hakkı Dayı in Teşkilat and as Ragıp in Ateş Kuşları. He also works as a voice actor and continues to work at the Bursa State Theatre.

The first phase of his career was the theatre: after graduating from the Hacettepe University State Conservatory in 1990 he spent a year at the Ankara State Theatre and worked at the Antalya State Theatre from 1993 to 2001, moving to Bursa in 2002. In 1997 he founded OL Tiyatrosu with the Azerbaijani director Namık Agayev; the company's first production was Hoşgeldin Nazım, followed by Martı, adapted from Richard Bach's book. On stage he appeared in plays such as Hamlet, Danton'un Ölümü and Batakhane Güzeli. He began acting for the camera in the early 1990s; his first widely noticed screen work was Vizontele and Vizontele Tuuba, followed by Organize İşler and Hokkabaz, both with Cem Yılmaz.

From the mid-2000s television took over: Gelin, Beşik Kertmesi, Annem, Bitmeyen Şarkı, Kötü Yol, Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu, Dayan Yüreğim and Sultan of My Heart. In cinema he appeared in Kurtuluş Son Durak (2012), Ankara Yazı, Şuursuz Aşk and Kendi Yolumda.