Hakan Bilgin

Hakan Bilgin was born on April 4, 1967 in Samsun. Originally from Artvin's Arhavi district, the artist took his first step into theater at the Ordu Municipality Black Sea Theatre. While studying at Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Business Administration, he continued his amateur theater work. Bilgin, who joined Ortaoyuncular, founded by Ferhan Şensoy, in 1990, performed here for six years and delved deeper into the theater world.

He said hello to professional life for the first time with the play "Goodbye Godot". Later, he also took part in the E.S.E.K community founded by Gökhan Semiz.

His introduction to television was with the TV series "Utanmaz Adam". His cinema adventure started with Yavuz Turgul's legendary movie "Eşkıya". Since then, he has appeared before the audience in numerous projects both on television and in cinema. In addition to his acting career, he started working as a volunteer at TOÇEV in 2002.

Over time, he started his professional life in this institution and was eventually elected as a board member in 2016.

Bilgin, who has been the presenter of the First Lego League since 2004, became a founding board member of the Science Heroes Association, which is also a part of this project. He also hosted many festivals and award ceremonies. In 2017, he started the "Realization of Awareness" seminars organized by Cyprus Near East University.

Bilgin, who has reached more than 40 thousand high school students to date, has attended more than a hundred seminars and participated in TEDx talks as both a speaker and a moderator.

Bilgin, who stated in one of his interviews that he adopted theater the most among theatre, TV series and cinema, was also the owner of a place called "Sakızlı Cafe" in Nişantaşı in 2008. However, he announced that he was closing the place and turning to wholesale trade in order to expand the business.

Productions in which he took part

He took part in a total of 68 productions; 12 of the most well-known are listed.

• The Snake Story (1999) — Yusuf
• Çınaraltı (2004) — Nuri
• Küçük Ağa (2014) — Mahir "Maho" Tiryaki
• Cumhur Cemaat (2007) — Cumhur
• Shoulder to Shoulder with Arda (2022)
• Star Tale (2011)
• Pebbles (2010) — Muzaffer
• Good Friends (2009) — Suat
• Twilight (2003) — Cemil
• Ece (2008)
• Rookie (2003)
• Between Us and Ali Sunal (2024)

Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.