The Turkish actor Halit Ergench became famous all over the world after the television series “The Magnificent Century” was released in 2011, where he embodied the image of Suleiman the Magnificent, the tenth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, who was a historically significant person who managed to influence the whole world.
Halit Ergench, a biography whose personal life and origin was of interest to all fans of the series, was born on April 30, 1974 in Istanbul. It is worth noting that the leading actor of one of the leading Turkish television series of our time grew up in an acting family. His father is Sait Ergench, an actor quite famous in Turkey.
Actor Halit Ergench, whose biography went down in history as well as the biography of his character, successfully graduated from Ataturk High School, and then became a student at Istanbul Technical University. There, a talented actor planned to get an education in architecture and shipbuilding. In his interviews, he admitted that he entered there at the insistence of his parents.
In the educational institution, he could only last two semesters. Then Halit Ergench, whose biography is known to most lovers of Turkish cinema, became a student at M. Sinan University, where for several years he professionally studied theatrical art and academic vocals.
In order to somehow earn his living and to pay for his studies at the university, Halit worked for some time as a marketer and operator in one of the computer companies. During his studies, he managed to work as a vocalist and dancer in two groups at once, which, although they enjoyed some popularity in Turkey, did not achieve much success.
In 1996, already a professional actor Halit Ergench, whose biography is well known to moviegoers, became a member of the troupe of the famous Dormen Theater. At first, the actor was entrusted with only small roles, but after six months of work, he still played the first main role in the production of “The King and Me”. This musical for several years successfully went to the theater.
Soon Khalit became few theatrical roles, he began to go on castings in television series. The first popularity came to the talented actor after Black Angel, a Turkish multi-part feature film that aired with great success. In parallel, Ergench continued to work in the theater.
It got to the point that they started talking about the actor outside Turkey, and a few months later Halit Ergench, whose biography visited the tables of many Hollywood producers, became an actor in the troupe of the musical The Adventures of Zach. From 2000 to 2010, Halit Ergench actively starred in Turkish television projects. The year 2004 was marked by the release of the multi-part film “Aliye”, where the actor was lucky to work with many eminent persons of the Turkish film industry.
In 2011, Halit Ergench, whose biography already included a large number of shootings and performances, became the leading actor in the series "The Magnificent Century", which has gained popularity around the world. A talented actor claims that this is the role he has been waiting for his whole life, and it was she who helped him achieve an unprecedented level in acting.