Arda Kanpolat is a Turkish theater and cinema actor who attracted attention with his role as Hamlet in his short career. He died during a movie shoot in Istanbul in 2004, when he was only 25 years old.
He was born in Ankara in 1979. His father is Prof. who works in the field of neurosurgery at Hacettepe University. Dr. Yรผcel Kanpolat, and his mother is Ayfer Kanpolat, a professor of medicine. He graduated from Bilkent University's performing arts department. In 2002 he went to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in London to study Shakespeare.
His acting and death
After returning to Tรผrkiye, he took the lead role in Georgian director Robert Sturua's modern interpretation of Hamlet staged at the Ankara State Theatre. After the performances in Ankara, the play was also staged at the Istanbul Theater Festival. In the spring of 2004, he joined the cast of the movie Kalpin Zamanฤฑ, directed by Ali รzgentรผrk; He would play the younger character of a character in the movie.
On June 15, 2004, he was found dead in the elevator shaft of the Pera Palas Hotel in Istanbul, where the film was shot. His family declared the death an accident; How the incident took place was discussed in different ways in the public.
In order to keep his memory alive, his family has been giving the Arda Kanpolat Acting Award to young actors since 2006. Sรผleyman Demirel University Faculty of Fine Arts also organized an international theater festival and congress named after him in 2012; The second event was held in 2016.
