Cengiz Coşkun (born 29 April 1982) is a Turkish television and film actor. He is best known for his role as

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in the TV show '' Diriliş: Ertuğrul''.

Early life

Coşkun was born on 29 April 1982 in

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. His mother is a housewife and his father is a machine technician, they were ethnic Turks from Bulgaria who immigrated to

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Career

He started playing basketball in the first years of secondary school, and then won Ülkerspor's auditions. He played there for 7 years, then transferred to Erdemir Ereğli Spor where he remained for 2 years. Then he played for 1 year at Balıkesir DSİ Spor. In 2008, he graduated from

Marmara University Marmara University ( Turkish: ''Marmara Üniversitesi'') is a public university in Istanbul, Turkey. The university is named after the Sea of Marmara and was founded as a university in 1982. However, it was created in 1883 under the name of ''H ...

, sports department. During this time he also started modelling. Coşkun began his appearing and modelling profession after successful a modelling contest in 2002, which was held in

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. In 2005, he started acting with the series ''Rüzgarlı Bahçe''. After starting acting, he got training from Şahika Tekand and joined her workshops. Later, he appeared in the series ''Candan Öte'' (2006), ''Doktorlar'' (2007) and ''Hicran Yarası'' (2009). Coşkun made his film debut in the ''

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'' (2012) and appeared as

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. It is said he did not get the main role as the

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as his eyes were blue. He competed in the reality show '' Survivor: Ünlüler vs. Gönüllüler 3'' (2013) and was eliminated on the 94th day. He played the role of

in '' Diriliş: Ertuğrul'' (2014). In 2020, Coşkun appeared in film ''Malazgirt 1071'' in lead role of Seljuk Sultan

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Filmography

TV series

Films

References

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