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Nihat Altınkaya

Nihat Altınkaya

Actor · 47 years old

Yalçın in the series Uzak Şehir

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Age47
Birth dateSeptember 28, 1979
BirthplaceKarabük
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signLibra
Eye colorBrown
Spouseİmre Altınkaya

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Nihat Altınkaya — Biography

Nihat Alptuğ Altınkaya is a Turkish actor who came to the screen from professional sport and modeling. Wide audiences came to know him as the winner of Survivor Ünlüler - Gönüllüler in 2012 and as Erdem Yarbay in the series Söz. He currently plays Yalçın in Uzak Şehir.

He spent two years playing professional volleyball for Karabük Demir Çelik High School and Ankara Emlak Bankası Sports Club. An injury at seventeen ended that career, and he went to work as a security guard at a nightclub in Ayvalık; after moving to Istanbul he took up boxing and joined the boxing section of Fenerbahçe. Casting agency owner Gökçe Doruk Erten, whom he met on İstiklal Avenue, got him a part in Funda Arar's music video “Özledim,” followed by work as a model. He studied theater with Ayla Algan and İpek Bilgin at the Ekol Drama Art House and began with supporting parts in series such as Yaprak Dökümü. On the big screen he played Ediz Telhan in the Belgian co-production Turquaze and shared the lead with Ezgi Asaroğlu in En Mutlu Olduğum Yer, Kağan Erturan's first feature. After Karadayı and Kara Para Aşk he played Hulki in Teşkilat, then joined the cast of Kuruluş Osman.

Married with two daughters, he lives in Istanbul.

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Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

The action side of Nihat Altınkaya's screen work shows most clearly in Söz: in a series that combines military action and war storytelling, Erdem Yarbay is the part that has him play a figure with rank and responsibility. Anyone after tension can set Söz beside his Yalçın in Uzak Şehir, a crime drama set in Mardin's harsh landscape; both show him in worlds where danger is never far off.

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The most interesting stop in Nihat Altınkaya's filmography is Turquaze, a Belgian co-production. In this Dutch-language film about the identity crisis of three brothers of Turkish origin living in Ghent, he plays Ediz, the most mature of them, who tries to step into the father's place after their father is gone. It is a register very different from his uniformed work in Söz: the elder brother who takes on the weight in an immigrant family. Nowhere else in his screen work are questions about the second generation of migration this open. For anyone who knows Altınkaya only from series, Turquaze is the way to see him at the center of a family drama.

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