Sadi Celil Cengiz

Sadi Celil Cengiz — Biography

Sadi Celil Cengiz is an actor of Circassian descent, known for the comedy series İşler Güçler, in which he appeared alongside Ahmet Kural and Murat Cemcir. The series gave him his first leading role and brought his name to a wide audience. Credited as a writer and director as well as an actor, he has gone on working in television series and films.

His schooling was unrelated to acting: after two years at Ordu Science High School he graduated from Çarşamba High School, finished the Faculty of Business at Istanbul University, did his military service in 2007-2008 as a reserve officer and worked for a time as a customs officer. He has appeared in around sixty short films. One of these, Ayrılık, came second in a short film competition and reached the final at the Golden Orange Film Festival.

On television, after İşler Güçler he took part in productions such as Sürgün İnek (as Burak), Kadın İşi Banka Soygunu, Nadide Hayat (as Kerem), Damat Takımı (as Besim) and Eyvah Karim, and an agent in Poyraz Karayel: Küresel Sermaye (2017), and in Benim Tatlı Yalanım (2019) he played Rafet Doğan. Born in the Çarşamba district of Samsun, his father is a former coach of Çarşambaspor.