Hakan Yılmaz

Born in Rize's Çayeli district, Hakan Yılmaz was born in December 1969. Yılmaz, who has been involved with art since his early ages, had his first stage experience in the school play called Cimri and Manav when he was a second grade student. During her primary school years, she participated in folklore studies under the guidance of Üstün Gürtuna, and when she was in high school, she received modern dance training from Çetin Cengiz.

While she was teaching dance lessons at the same studio for three years, she could not enter the theater department of the Faculty of Fine Arts, but continued to take part in children's plays in amateur theater groups and schools.

While performing his military service, he took part in the photography and animation team for 15 months and prepared various shows. After his discharge, he settled in Antalya and performed at the Line Theater for two years. During the same period, he also appeared in the TV program Dizi Show. After his return to Istanbul, he attended Tevfik Gelenbe's theater courses and the sketch program project he prepared with a friend for Star TV was shelved before it was broadcast due to the start of the Gulf War. During this period, he took a break from acting and turned to graphic design.

Would You Get Iner?, presented by Boran Kaya in 1994. Will you come out? He took part in the sketches he wrote in the competition program. In 1995-1996, he played in sketches with Şafak Sezer, Erkan Taşdöğen and Zafer Algöz in the entertainment program called Television Child, presented by Okan Bayülgen, and also appeared in his first commercials during this period.

In 1997, he played Dr. in the TV series Fire Ayşe. He brought the character of Muzo to life. A year later, in 1998, he presented the children's competition program Büyük Küçük Demeden, which lasted 120 episodes. He met with the audience for 490 episodes, playing the character of Teoman in the TV series Ayrılsak da Beraberiz, which started broadcasting in 1999 and continued until 2004.

In 2004, he starred in the TV series Uy Başuma Gelenler. In the same year, he appeared on the stage with the theater play titled Dear Wife, and with this play, he appeared before the audience 75 times in various provinces of Anatolia as well as in Istanbul. The artist, who is a father of two children, ended his first marriage in 2011.

He became widely known for his character Osman Koçarslanlı in the TV series Avrupa Yakası. Later, he took on the role of Kemal Kükreyen in the TV series Yahşi Cazibe.