Halit Ergench is a famous Turkish actor whose popularity has grown many times since the start of the broadcast of the television series "The Magnificent Century." However, few people, looking at the formidable Sultan Suleiman, might think that an actor who embodied this image could become an architect and a shipbuilder in due time.
April 30, 1970 - a significant date for Turkish cinema, it was on this day that Halit Ergench was born. The biography, photo, filmography of the actor - all this became of interest to the audience after a series of successful television series with his participation. The main pearl in his work is the "Magnificent Century."
The biography of Halit Ergench is closely related to Istanbul, it was there that he was born and raised in the family of the popular theater and film actor Sait Ergench. After receiving secondary education, Halit thought for a long time about the future, and as a result he entered one of the universities of Istanbul, planning to engage in shipbuilding and architecture.
Ergench did not like studying at the university, so after two semesters he decided to quit the university and become a student in the theater and opera department of the Mimar Sinan University. While studying, Khalit had to earn money as a marketer and a PC operator in order to earn a living. The biography of Halit Ergench indicates that he had to work even as a dancer and singer in several musical groups at once.
1996 brought the actor’s life into life - Halit became a member of the Dormen Theater troupe, where he was entrusted with the main role in the production of “The King and Me”. But this was not enough for Ergench, and he thought about how to conquer the cinema. At first, the actor was not lucky at the movie screenings, but still, fate had mercy on him.
A cinematic biography of Halit Ergench begins with the serial film "Black Angel". Since then, the actor has been playing in the theater and acting in films. Theater critics praised the role of Ergench in the performances of Sweet Charity and Love Me. The fame of a talented actor reached Hollywood, and Khalit was invited to work on the musical The Adventures of Zach.
In 2000, Ergench returned to Turkey and continued to actively act in films and play in the theater. Separately, it is worth noting the multi-part film "Aliye", where Khalit was lucky to work with Neyat Isler and Sanim Celik, the stars of Turkish cinema. In 2009, Timur Savji called Ergench and offered to play the role of Suleiman I the Magnificent in the new series.
Here, the creative biography of Halit Ergench stops for a while, because for a whole year he was waiting for the start of the filming of The Magnificent Century, and all this time he read materials about his hero. In the interview, the actor admitted that the image of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire for understanding was rather complicated and ambiguous, but working on it is insanely interesting.
However, all this is nothing compared to the popularity that fell on an actor named Halit Ergench. Biography, wife, son Ali - all this interested fans of the series "The Magnificent Century." It got to the point that the son of Khalit is called Shehzade Ali by analogy with the children of the Sultan Suleiman. Ergench himself refers to this with irony, claiming that someday this will end.
Since 2010, Halit Ergench has been working only on the site of the “Magnificent Century”. The end of the series is scheduled for spring 2014. What exactly the actor will do after the completion of the historical saga is still unknown.