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Burak Hakkı

Burak Hakkı

Actor · 54 years old

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Age54
Birth dateMay 23, 1972
BirthplaceIstanbul
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signGemini
Eye colorGreen
EducationIstanbul University, Econometrics Department

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Burak Hakkı — Biography

Burak Hakkı is a former model turned actor, best known as Hüseyin Kenan in Dudaktan Kalbe, an adaptation of Reşat Nuri Güntekin's novel, and as the Seljuk Sultan Alaaddin Keykubat in Diriliş Ertuğrul. His role as Ali in Kaybolan Yıllar also made him known in the Arab world. In 2026 he left city life behind, set up a farm on 35,000 square meters of land in Çanakkale and took up walnut growing.

A graduate of the econometrics department of Istanbul University's Faculty of Economics, and a basketball player at Nasaş in his youth, he spent ten years modeling: more than a thousand fashion shows and events, 16 commercials, and work between 1995 and 2003 with agencies and designers in Italy, Germany, Austria, France and Switzerland. He won Best Model of Turkey in 1994, placed fourth and was named best photo model at Manhunt International in Australia in 1995, and finished second at Top Méditerranée in Tunisia in 1997. Appearances in the music videos for Pınar Aylin's "Karar Ver" and Sibel Can's "Kanasın" made him known beyond the runway.

He began acting in 2000 as Volkan in the TV film Aşk Aynı Adreste and came to the fore as Murat in Gurbet Kadını (2003). He played Kamran in Yeniden Çalıkuşu, followed by the films Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam'ın Oğlu, O Kadın and Semum and the series Kızım Nerede?. More recently he played Kenan Karaman in the series I Gefyra (2022) and appeared in the film Hava Muhalefeti (2023) and the series Sorgu (2024).

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Series Binger A series devotee tracking character arcs, cast chemistry and season pacing.

Dudaktan Kalbe is the soundest starting point for Burak Hakkı on screen: in this adaptation that brings Reşat Nuri Güntekin's novel into the present day, Hüseyin Kenan, who rises from a poor childhood to fame, is the lead in which he carries a story from start to finish. The Seljuk Sultan Alaaddin Keykubat in Diriliş Ertuğrul is the opposite register: an authority figure whose word counts in a large historical series. Kızım Nerede shows him as one of the shared leads in the tense story of a family whose daughter vanishes from a nightclub.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Outside Dudaktan Kalbe, few roles have let Burak Hakkı carry a character's transformation. In O Kadın, Bülent stands at the edge of a romantic drama focused on the love of Yeşim and Okan; in İkizler Memo-Can, Onur is one of the supporting characters in a family comedy led by Nehir Erdoğan, Özgürcan Çevik and Emir Berke Zincidi. For an actor who has shown he can shoulder a rise from poverty to fame, these are parts with thin material. Where he says the most on screen is in long-running leads that let a character's change unfold episode by episode, and film and his recent series have not yet given him that.

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