Ceyhun Yılmaz

Ceyhun Yılmaz was born on October 5, 1976 in Istanbul. Yılmaz, the popular face of the Turkish comedy world, is also known as an actor, radio and television programmer.

After completing his primary education at Bahçelievler Kazım Karabekir Primary School, he started attending Yeşilköy 50. Yıl High School in 1990 and graduated in 1993. Yılmaz then enrolled in Anadolu University, Faculty of Economics, and left school in the second year to pursue his new dreams.

Ceyhun Yılmaz, who started his career as a production assistant at Star TV in 1995, later worked as a sports reporter and assistant sports service manager at TGRT. Yılmaz, who started his radio career at Best FM in 1999, continued his interest in performing arts by enrolling in Istanbul Bilgi University Stage and Performing Arts department in 2000.

Yılmaz, who appeared on the screens with a television program bearing his name on ATV in 2001, met with the audience for 13 episodes. In the same year, the artist started performing at the Kadıköy Public Education Center Trial Stage and performed more than 500 plays there. Yılmaz, who published his first poetry book in 2002, left his school, program and stage in the same year and joined the army to fulfill his national duty.

Ceyhun Yılmaz, who completed his military service and returned to radio in 2003, published his second poetry book "Kasimin Bıçak Yarası". The artist, who restarted his shows in the same year, signed an agreement with TRT in 2004 and presented the program "Sov Rüzgarı". In 2005, he aired his program called "Ceyhun Yılmaz Talk Show" on Cine5 every weeknight and hosted 210 famous guests in 165 episodes.

He completed his primary education at Bahçelievler Kazım Karabekir Primary School. While studying at this school, in addition to the one-man plays he organized in class, he appeared on stage for the first time at his school's graduation night in 1985. He started attending Yeşilköy 50.Yıl High School in 1990 and graduated from there in 1993.

Then, he enrolled in Anadolu University, Faculty of Economics, Department of Economics for his higher education and left in his second year.

In 1995, he worked as a production assistant at Star TV. Afterwards, he worked as a TGRT sports reporter, Star TV sports producer in 1997, and Star TV Galatasaray Correspondent and TGRT sports service assistant manager in 1998. It started broadcasting on Best FM in January 1999. In 2000, he became a student of Istanbul Bilgi University Stage and Performing Arts.

In the same year, he started performing at the Kadıköy Public Education Center Trial Stage and performed over 500 plays there. In 2001, he prepared a television program bearing his name on ATV and presented it for 13 episodes.

He published his first poetry book in 2002, and in the same year, he left his school, TV program, radio program and stage and joined the army to do his national duty. After staying in Van for 4 months, he traveled to all provinces of Turkey and performed a total of 107 shows for soldiers and high-ranking personnel.

Productions in which he took part

He took part in 25 productions in total; 12 of the most well-known are listed.

• Leyla and Mecnun (2011) — Radiographers
• Life Information (2003) — Ruhi
• Sister Share (2014)
• Between Us and Ali Sunal (2024)
• The Man of My House (2007) — Ercüment
• Dance with Jackals (2010) — Adem Abi
• Are you a man! (2016)
• Crazy Kazim
• Crazy Full (2006)
• Dances with Jackals 3: Zero Boredom (2014) — Adem Abi
• Ottoman Republic (2008) — Traffic Police
• Group Without a Purpose (2021) — Traffic Police

Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.