Tarık Akan

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Tarık Akan (born as Tarık Tahsin Üregül in 13 December 1949, Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish film actor and producer who has been active since the 1970s.

[edit] Biography

Tarık Akan was born as Tarık Üregül in Istanbul in 1949. His family was constantly moving around Turkey due to his father's occupation in the military. Before he started his acting career he worked as a lifeguard at beaches and at a boat renting place. He received a degree in mechanical engineering at Yıldız Technical University. He entered a contest of a famous magazine called Ses ("Voice") and ended up runner up. He studied acting under the eye of famous Turkish film director Ertem Eğilmez.

He made his film debut in 1970 at the age of 21 in Vefasız. At first, most of his roles were in romantic comedies. Later in his career, he has taken on more political and dramatic roles. He has acted in a total of 110 films to date and has won numerous awards from various festivals including Cannes and Berlin.

He has also directed several productions such as documentaries and serials for television. In 2002, he published his first book "Anne Kafamda Bit Var", a biography of his life. He has three children from his marriage with Yasemin Erkut - one son and two daughters.

In 1991 he opened his own school in Bakırköy,Özel Taş İlköğretim Okulu.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] External links

• Tarık Akan at the Internet Movie Database

Awards
Preceded by Murat Soydan	Golden Orange Award for Best Actor 1973 for Suçlu	Succeeded by Hakan Balamir
Preceded by Kemal Sunal	Golden Orange Award for Best Actor 1978 for Maden	Succeeded by not awarded
Preceded by Genco Erkal	Golden Orange Award for Best Actor 1984 for Pehlivan	Succeeded by Hakan Balamir
Preceded by Aytaç Arman	Golden Orange Award for Best Actor 1989 for Üçüncü Göz 1990 for Karartma Geceleri	Succeeded by Ekrem Bora
Preceded by not held	Golden Boll Award for Best Actor 1992 for Karartma Geceleri	Succeeded by Menderes Samancılar
Preceded by Fırat Tanış	Golden Orange Award for Best Actor 2003 for Gülüm	Succeeded by Olgun Şimşek

v • d • e Golden Orange Award for Best Actor İzzet Günay (1964) · Fikret Hakan (1965) · Ekrem Bora (1966) · Yılmaz Güney (1967) · Fikret Hakan (1968) · Cüneyt Arkın (1969) · Yılmaz Güney (1970) · Fikret Hakan (1971) · Murat Soydan (1972) · Tarık Akan (1973) · Hakan Balamir (1974) · Erkan Yücel (1975) · Cüneyt Arkın (1976) · Kemal Sunal (1977) · Tarık Akan (1978) · İhsan Yüce (1981) · Genco Erkal (1982) · Genco Erkal (1983) · Tarık Akan (1984) · Hakan Balamir (1985) · Kadir İnanır (1986) · Şener Şen (1987) · Aytaç Arman (1988) · Tarık Akan (1989) · Tarık Akan (1990) · Ekrem Bora (1991) · Mehmet Aslantuğ (1992) · Mehmet Aslantuğ (1993) · Sadri Alışık-Mehmet Aslantuğ (1994) · Halil Ergün (1995) · Ruhi Sarı (1996) · Tanju Gürsu (1997) · Erkan Can (1998) · Uğur Polat (1999) · Talat Bulut (2000) · Altan Erkekli (2001) · Fırat Tanış (2002) · Tarık Akan (2003) · Olgun Şimşek (2004) · Şener Şen (2005) · Erkan Can (2006) · Murat Han (2007) · Tayanç Ayaydın (2008)

v • d • e Golden Orange Life Achievement Award Atıf Yılmaz-Hülya Koçyiğit-Tarık Akan-Türkan Şoray (1996) · Fikret Hakan-Müjde Ar-Nejat Saydam-Yılmaz Duru (1997) · Fatma Girik-Memduh Ün-Kemal Sunal (1998) · Şerif Gören-Nedim Otyam-Cahit Berkay-Göksel Arsoy-Cüneyt Arkın-Türker İnanoğlu-Osman Şahin-Hayati Hamzaoğlu (1999) · Kadir İnanır, Ekrem Bora-Orhan Günşıray-Sümer Tilmaç-Filiz Akın-Zülfü Livaneli-Orhan Aksoy (2000) · Ediz Hun-Suna Pekuysal-Bülent Oran-Sırrı Gültekin (2001) · Hulki Saner-İzzet Günay-Kartal Tibet-Kenan Kurt-Selda Alkor (2002) · Kadri Yurdatap-Tunç Başaran-Çolpan İlhan-Muhterem Nur-Tanju Gürsu-Süleyman Turan-Rafet Şiriner (2003) · Şener Şen-Hale Soygaz (2004) · Seyfi Havaeri-Efgan Efekan-Nebahat Çehre (2005) · Aytaç Arman-Yusuf Sezgin (2006) · Yavuz Turgul-Halil Ergün (2007)

v • d • e Golden Boll Award for Best Actor Yılmaz Güney (1969) · Yılmaz Güney (1970) · Yılmaz Güney (1971) · Kadir İnanır (1972) · Cüneyt Arkın (1973) · Tarık Akan (1992) · Menderes Samancılar (1993) · Mehmet Aslantuğ (1994) · Halil Ergün (1995) · Halil Ergün (1996) · Haluk Bilginer (1997) · Kenan İmirzalıoğlu-Olgun Şimşek (2005) · Turan Özdemir (2006) · Cezmi Baskın (2007) · Teoman Kumbaracıbaşı- Murat Öncül- Ali Çelik- Murat Makçı- Murat Kılıç- Ruhi Sarı- Mustafa Kırantepe- Hasan Şahintürk- Barış Yıldız- Emin Gürsoy- İnan Temelkuran- Güven İnce- Kadir Çermik- Ali Rıza Kubilay- Öner Erkan- A. Mümtaz Taylan- İnan Ulaş Torun- Aykut Kayacık (2008)