Kenan Cahit Ece was born on December 24, 1980 in Dubai, where his father was working. Kenan, the son of Murat Ece, who comes from the business world, and Esin Erel, who is active in the tourism sector, grew up as a member of the Bijnou family, in an environment where names such as Muhlis Sabahattin Ezgi, Neveser Kökdeş and Keriman Halis were raised; He is also the grandson of Galatasaray's former football player and manager Turgan Ece.
Kenan, who stayed in Dubai until the age of two, immigrated to Turkey with his family and spent his childhood in Marmaris; After continuing his education in Istanbul, he graduated from Austrian High School in 2000. During his high school years, he joined the theater club and performed in various plays; After studying languages in Germany, France and England, he moved to the USA for his higher education and completed his theater and economics departments simultaneously at Davidson College in 2004.
After her graduation, Ece lived in Dublin for four years and while working in the finance department of an energy company, she also continued her acting education at the Gaeity School of Acting and the Irish Film Academy. While she played a 13-episode character in Ireland's well-established television series "Fair City", she also performed at The Abbey National Theatre; After these experiences, he returned to Turkey in the early 2010s.
In Turkey, he played the leading role in the movie "Yüreğine Sor" directed by Yusuf Kurçenli, and was awarded the Best Supporting Actor award at the 17th Sadri Alışık Theater and Cinema Actor Awards for his performance in the 2011 movie "Beni Unutma".
Kenan Ece portrayed different characters in popular television series such as “Deli Saraylı”, “İzmir Gang”, “Cream”, “Heart Thief” and “War of the Roses”; He founded the stage group called "Çamurdan Tiyatro" in 2012, especially with his co-star in "İzmir Gang", Mustafa Üstündağ, and translated Norman Lock's play "Reclamation House" into Turkish and staged it in various cities.
In 2014, he played the character of Kaya in the play "Bakarsın Bulutlar Gider" written by Özen Yula, and he performed this role in German in Vienna in 2016. In his cinema career, he took on the characters of both Captain Mustafa and Consul Murat in the movie "Ertuğrul 1890", and appeared before the audience with the role of Alper in the 2017 movie "Taksim Hold'em"; He also appeared in films such as "Ver Kaç", "Cingöz Recai: Return of a Legend", "Aşk Olsun" and "Gulyabani".
Ece married Canan Ergüder, whom he met on the set of "War of the Roses" in 2017, and gave birth to their son Ece Demir in 2018. The couple continued their artistic life together by staging the two-person play "Hippocrates" at Toy Istanbul in 2019. In recent years, he continues to win the appreciation of the audience with the character of Hamza in the Irish TV series "Kin" (2023), Turgay Güngör in the TV series "Sadakatsiz" (2020‑2021) and Murat Ünal in the TV series "Avlu" (2018‑2019).
He was born in 1980. After graduating from Austrian High School, he completed his theater and economics education at Davidson College in America in 2004. Kenan Ece, who starred in many plays at university, started living in Dublin - Ireland after graduation. He attended acting classes at Gaeity School of Acting for two years and starred in 13 episodes of Ireland's most established television series "Fair City".
Then he worked at the Irish State Theater "The Abbey". He took courses on camera acting at the Irish Film Academy. He played a Spanish matador in the television show of Katherine Lynch, one of Ireland's popular comedians. Kenan Ece's first cinema project was the movie "Yüreğine Sor", directed by Yusuf Kurçenli and starring Tuba Büyüküstün and Hakan Eratik. He played the character "Namık" in Ay Yapım's TV series "Samanyolu".
Productions in which he took part
He took part in 21 productions in total; 12 of the most well-known are listed.
- Izmir Gang (2011)
- Kin (2021) — Hamza
- Courtyard (2018) — Guardian Murat Ünal
- Slum (2010)
- Sağ Salim (2012) — Ayhan
- Cream (2012) — Onur Adaman
- Milky Way (2009) — Namık
- Sadan Hanım (2021) — Ziyaeddin Ünüvar
- Heart Thief (2014) — Tekin
- Cingöz Recai (2017) — Recai's father
- Let There Be Love (2015) — Caner
- Gulyabani (2014) — Murat
Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.
