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Olgun Şimşek (born 1 June 1971) is a Turkish actor.


Biography

Olgun Şimşek was born in the village of Yenice in Büyükorhan, Bursa. His father was a primary school teacher and his mother was a housewife. He graduated in theatre from the
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State Conservatory and began acting professionally in 1993. Şimşek acted in the play ''Otogargara'' with
Demet Akbağ Demet Akbağ (née İybar; born 23 December 1959) is a Turkish theatre and film actress. Biography Demet Akbağ was born on 23 December 1959 in Denizli as the third child of Benan and Oktay İybar. Her maternal family is of Turkmen descent. H ...
and Yılmaz Erdoğan. He had a small parts in the films ''Tersine Dünya'' in 1993 and ''Yer Çekimli Aşıklar'' in 1995. In 1998, he acted in the film ''Karışık Pizza'' for which he won the Most Promising Actor award at the Ankara Film Festival. Şimşek also had appearances in television series such as ''Sihirli Ceket'', ''Yedi Numara'', ''Beşik Kertmesi'' ve ''Alacakaranlık''. In 2004, he starred in the film ''
Yazı Tura ''Toss-Up'' ( tr, Yazı Tura) is a 2004 Turkish drama film, produced, written and directed by Uğur Yücel, starring Kenan İmirzalıoğlu and Olgun Şimşek as two soldiers return home from their military service in southeastern Turkey with dis ...
'' directed by
Uğur Yücel Uğur Yücel (born 26 May 1957) is a Turkish film actor, producer and director. He graduated from the Theater Department of the Istanbul Municipality Conservatory (İstanbul Belediye Konservatuarı Tiyatro Bölümü). He took part in several pl ...
where he played a disabled soldier. For this, he won several awards including the Golden Orange for Best Actor as well as Best Actor awards at the Ankara Film Festival, Istanbul Film Festival, Adana Golden Coccoon Festival and the SİYAD awards. Currently, he is starring in a Turkish comedy show ''Yalan Dunya''.


Filmography

* 1993: '' Tersine Dünya'' - TV series * 1993: '' Tetikçi Kemal'' - TV series * 1994: '' Aziz Ahmet'' - TV series * 1994: '' Gülşen Abi'' - TV series * 1995: ''
Yer Çekimli Aşklar A yer is either of two letters in Cyrillic alphabets, ъ (ѥръ, ''jerŭ'') and ь (ѥрь, ''jerĭ''). The Glagolitic alphabet used, as respective counterparts, the letters (Ⱏ) and (Ⱐ). They originally represented phonemically the "ult ...
'' - TV series * 1996: '' Sihirli Ceket'' - TV series * 1996: ''Sultanım'' - Erkan Yılbaş - TV series * 1997: '' Bir Demet Tiyatro'' - Kudret/Bahattin - TV program * 1998: '' Dış Kapının Mandalları'' - TV series * 1998: '' Karışık Pizza'' - Murat - TV series * 1998: ''Tatlı Rüyalar'' - Ali Haydar Akbayır - TV series * 2001: ''
Yeşil Işık ''Green Light'' (Original Turkish title: ''Yeşil Işık'') is a 2002 Turkish romantic drama film, written and directed by Faruk Aksoy. Plot Elif is a married woman who has just caught her husband cheating. Ali is an investor on the verge of maki ...
'' - Ferdi * 2002: ''Beşik Kertmesi'' - TV series * 2000–2003: ''
Yedi Numara Yedi is a settlement in Kenya's Coast Province The Coast Province ( sw, Mkoa wa Pwani) of Kenya, along the Indian Ocean, was one of Kenya's eight provinces. It comprises the Indian Ocean coastal strip with the capital city at Mombasa and was ...
'' - Sabit Ballıoğlu - TV series * 2003: '' Alacakaranlık'' - Emir Büyükdereci - TV series * 2003: ''
Yazı Tura ''Toss-Up'' ( tr, Yazı Tura) is a 2004 Turkish drama film, produced, written and directed by Uğur Yücel, starring Kenan İmirzalıoğlu and Olgun Şimşek as two soldiers return home from their military service in southeastern Turkey with dis ...
'' - Rıdvan * 2005: ''
Beyaz Gelincik Beyaz may refer to: * Beyaz, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran * Beyaz Show, Turkish talk show ** Beyazıt Öztürk, the host, also known as ''Beyaz'' * Beyaz peynir, Turkish cuisine * Eren Beyaz, Turkish basketball player * Beyaz (drug), an ...
'' - Aziz Kudret Tarhan - TV series * 2005: '' Kapıları Açmak'' - Cihan - TV series * 2008: ''Akşamdan Kalma'' - Hidayet * 2009–2010: ''
Kapalıçarşı The Grand Bazaar ( tr, Kapalıçarşı, meaning ‘Covered Market’; also , meaning ‘Grand Market’Müller-Wiener (1977), p. 345.) in Istanbul is one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the world, with 61 covered streets and over 4 ...
'' - Mahmut - TV series * 2010: ''Akşamdan Kalma 2'' - Hidayet * 2012: '' Gözetleme Kulesi'' - Nihat - TV series * 2012: ''
Yalan Dünya ''Yalan Dünya'' ''(Fake World)'' is a Turkish TV series produced by Gülse Birsel and directed by Jale Atabey in 2012. Plot ''Yalan Dünya'' is about the lives of actors and actresses in Cihangir, Istanbul, an up-and-coming neighbourhood with a ...
'' - Selahattin/Ahmet - TV series * 2012: ''Akşamdan Kalma 3'' - Hidayet * 2017: '' Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz'' - Yaşar Kimsesiz - TV series * 2017: ''Bana Söyleme'' - Yılmaz Akbağ - TV series * 2020: '' Ramo'' - Cihangir Hanlı - TV series * 2022: ''
Cici Cici or CICI may refer to: Persons with the name * CiCi Bellis, American tennis player * Cici Hong Chen, Chinese singer * Cici Manolache, Romanian footballer Other uses * Ćići, the people of the Ćićarija region in Croatia and Slovenia * Ç ...
'' - Netflix original film


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* 1971 births People from Bursa Living people Turkish male film actors Turkish male stage actors Turkish male television actors Best Actor Golden Orange Award winners Best Actor Golden Boll Award winners {{Turkey-actor-stub