Kenan İmirzalıoğlu

Kenan İmirzalıoğlu
Kenan İmirzalıoğlu
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Born	Kenan İmirzalıoğlu; June 18, 1974 (age 50); Ankara, Turkey
Education	Yıldız Technical University
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1998-present
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)

Kenan İmirzalıoğlu (born 18 June 1974, Ankara) is a Turkish actor, operatic tenor, and former model. Kenan İmirzalıoğlu is one of the most talented actors of Turkish Tv & Cinema. With his charm and stunning acting performance he became one of the best actors of Turkey.

Kenan İmirzalıoğlu was born as the youngest of three children to Mustafa and Yıldız İmirzalıoğlu in the village of Üçem in Balâ, Ankara Province. At age 12, he moved to the city of Ankara for his middle studies. He graduated in Mathematics from Yıldız Technical University. les in the action films Son Osmanlı Yandım Ali (The Last Ottoman: Knockout Ali) and Kabadayı (For Love and Honor). He returned to television in 2009 with the series Ezel and also starred in the action film Ejder Kapanı (Dragon Trap) directed by Uğur Yücel. He is also known for his interest in Turkish folk dancing. Imirzalioglu will play the role of the Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera on Broadway in Spring 2015. ^[1]

Early Life & Education

Kenan İmirzalıoğlu was born in 18th of June 1974 in the village Üçem, which is located in Bala province of Ankara. He studied his middle school and high school in Ankara. After graduating from the high school, he didn’t succeed well in the matriculation exams in his first try. After the disappointment, he was returned to his village and studied to the matriculation exams for university. By his second attempt he was qualified for Yıldız Technical University Mathematics Faculty. Then he moves to İstanbul for his university education.

Modeling Carrier

Kenan İmirzalıoğlu was a good-looking young man, with his height and good-looking, her friends were insisting him to become a model. By this advises and and as a result of the insistence Kenan İmirzalıoğlu started to work with a modelling agency. After his modelling career started, he joined to the contest of Best Model of Turkey and he took the first place of the contest, became the Best Model of Turkey. As he took the first place of Turkeys’s contest, so he joined the Best Model of The World contest. With his great success he also took the first place of the worldwide contest, and became the Best Model of The World. This was the first time a Turkish model won such a prize.

Filmography

After the contest, he got many offers from the TV producers. The famous director Osman Sınav offered him the leading role of the tv series “Deli Yürek (Mad Heart)”. Kenan İmirzalıoğlu accepted this offer as he likes Mr.Osman Sınav. After the finishing of the Deli Yürek series, he starred in his first movie “Deli Yürek-Bumerang Cehennemi (Mad Heart-Boomerang Inferno)”. After the movie of Deli Yürek is completed he went to the U.S.A. for language education. After his return, he got more offers for new movie and tv projects. He picked the project Alacakaranlık (Twilight), which was written and directed by Uğur Yücel. After this project he starred in the movie of “Yazı Tura (Heads and Tails)” which is also produced by the Alacakaranlık team. The next tv series project was Acı Hayat(The Bitter Life), which was based on the original movie dated 1962. With his strong performance, he increased his popularity among Turkish people.

In the year of 2006 he starred in the movie of “Son Osmanlı Yandım Ali (The Last Ottoman Yandım Ali)” which is based on the cartoon of Suat Yalaz. As his performance was increasing, the offers continued to increase, and he starred in the movie “Kabadayı(Swashbuckler)” with the legendary actor Şener Şen, besides his tv series, this movie was one of the peaks of his movie career. After this projects, his last and most successful project is the tv series “Ezel“. Ezel became so popular, took number one place of the tv ratings. The series are finished in 2011 then series started to be aired abroad, being sold to 70+ countries. It also won International Seoul Drama Award .

In 2012, a new major tv series “Karadayı” had been announced. Karadayı, has a great selection actors and actress. Bergüzar Korel and Çetin Tekindor are the other stars of the series. With these two great talented artists, Karadayı will be the flash series of 2012-2013 tv seasonvand the series is still top of the rating list as of its thrid season in 2015.