İsmet Ekin Koç (born 21 June 1992) is a Turkish actor and musician.

Early life

His father is Tourism Professional Vehbi Koç and his mother is banker Sefika Koç. Due to his father's job, he completed his primary education by studying at different schools. He completed his high school education at Aldemir Atilla Konuk Anatolian High School in Antalya. Koç left Antalya to study Business Administration (English) at the

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and start to study online education sociology.

Career

Film

His first movie was ''

Senden Bana Kalan ''Senden Bana Kalan'' (English: What's Left of You) is a Turkish movie released on 17 April 2015. Synopsis Ozgur (Ekin Koç) a young boy who has lost his parents since childhood was heir to his grandfather's wealth but there is one condition that ...

'', which is the adaptation of the Korean movie ''A Millionaire's First Love''. He played the main role "Özgür Arıca", for which he won an Ayhan Işık Special Award. Shortly after, he played the one eyed soldier "Mehmed" in the British movie '' Ali and Nino'', in which

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and Adam Bakri were the lead actors. The movie is an adaptation of Kurban Said's novel (1937) and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He starred in the film ''Bizim İçin: Şampiyon'', based life story of jockey Halis Karataş. He is producer and actor of short film ''App''. He went to

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with films ''Okul Tıraşı'', ''Kurak Günler'' and short film ''Büyük Uçuş''.

Television

Koç had his first and main role in the fantasy series '' Sana Bir Sır Vereceğim'' in which he played a young man with invisibility power called Tilki - Kıvanç Gündoğdu. This role was his big breakthrough with his first partner

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. He and the cast of the TV series ''Sana Bir Sır Vereceğim'' performed the song "Sevsek Mi?", which featured on Bora Cengiz's album. Later, he played "Seyfi Yaşar" in the period series '' Benim Adım Gültepe''. Ekin Koç came to international attention for his role as "Sultan Ahmed I", the 14th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, in the TV series '' Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem'', which is based on a true story. In 2017, he played in ''

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'' as Burak Özer. He portrayed Ahmed Sencer the Seljuk ruler of Khorasan, in the series '' Uyanış: Büyük Selçuklu''. He later appeared in '' Üç Kuruş'' with a story about gypsies.

Web series

He played the character Kaan in the fourth episode of series ''7 Yüz'' in

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. He played in crime series "Bozkır". He had guest role of series

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Filmography

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Koc, Ekin 1992 births Living people Turkish Muslims Turkish male television actors Turkish male film actors 21st-century Turkish male actors