Rıza Kocaoğlu (born March 19, 1979) is a Turkish actor. Born and raised in

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban aggl ...

, he is mainly known for his role as Ali in the television series ''

Kuzey Güney ''Kuzey Güney'' () is a Turkish television drama series. The scenarists are Ece Yörenç and Melek Gençoğlu. The series stars Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ as Kuzey Tekinoğlu, a tough and rebellious son of an Istanbul baker, who comes back from priso ...

''.

Life

His maternal family is of Turkish descent who immigrated from

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...

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(nowadays in Greece). His paternal family is of Turkish and

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descents from

Kars Kars (; ku, Qers; ) is a city in northeast Turkey and the capital of Kars Province. Its population is 73,836 in 2011. Kars was in the ancient region known as ''Chorzene'', (in Greek Χορζηνή) in classical historiography ( Strabo), part of ...

and

Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and ...

. His sister, Gözde Kocaoğlu, is also an actress. He is a graduate of the theater department at

Dokuz Eylül University Dokuz Eylül University ( tr, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi) (DEÜ) is a university in İzmir, Turkey. It was founded in 1982 and is organized in 15 faculties. DEU is the first university which applied the problem-based learning method in Turkey, ...

and has worked in cinema since 2001. On 25 January 2013, 30 actors, including Rıza Kocaoğlu, were taken into custody for a drugs probe by Istanbul's narcotics police.

Filmography

References

1979 births Living people Dokuz Eylül University alumni Actors from İzmir Turkish male film actors Turkish male television actors {{Turkey-actor-stub