Doğa Karakaş

Doğa Karakaş is a Turkish actress born in Istanbul in 2002. He won the best actor award at the 20th Marrakesh International Film Festival for his leading role in Nehir Tuna's film Yurt.

He became interested in acting at a young age; He received training on basic acting and the Stanislavski method at Theater Teras. He appeared on the screen for the first time in 2012 with the role of Fatih Yazıcı in the TV seriessuch Bitmesin, broadcast on TRT 1. Then he appeared in the TV series Çukur and Yalancı and in the movie 4N1K: Wedding.

Tropic and Yurt

He played Rüzgar, a young man with Asperger syndrome, in Dönence, which started on Kanal D in the summer of 2023. In the same year, he played the character of Ahmet in Nehir Tuna's first feature film Yurt. He was selected as the best actor for this role at the Marrakech festival, where Jessica Chastain was the jury president; The same performance also brought him a nomination for best actor at the 57th SİYAD Turkish Cinema Awards.

He played the role of Tolga Karaoğlu in the TV series Bad Blood, which was broadcast on NOW in 2025.

Karakaş is among the new generation actors who came from child acting and received an international festival award at a young age.