Saygın Soysal

Born in Ankara on May 21, 1982, Saygın Soysal comes from a family where his father is from Çaykara and his mother is from Ilgaz. He completed his art education at Hacettepe University State Conservatory Performing Arts department and has since been known for his performances in various TV series on Turkish television screens.

Soysal, who started acting in 2005 with the character of Agency Owner in the movie "Güz Yangı", played the roles of Sergeant Yunus and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in productions such as "Kırık Kanatlar" (2006) and "Hatırla Sevgi" (2006). Aslan Kozcuoğlu in the TV series "Asi" in 2007-2008, and in "Does This Heart Forget You?" in 2009.

He played the characters of Kürşat Süvarioğlu in the project called Kürşat Süvarioğlu, Ali in "Türkan" in 2010, Tahir Oğuz in "Al Yazılım" in 2011, Mercan Ağa in "Muhteşem Yüzyıl" in 2013, and Bulgarian Ferit in "Tatar Ramazan" in the same year. Between 2014 and 2015, Fatih "Metin" Dündar in "Kara Para Aşk", Doğan in "46 Yok Olan" in 2016, Theodor Herzl in "Payitaht Abdülhamid" in 2017, Elvis Tushe in "Çukur" in 2018, Gendarmerie Senior Captain Yiğit Akan in "Nöbet" in 2019, Savaş Yıldırım in "Maraşlı" in 2020-2021, Çino in "Fire Birds" in 2024, Korkut Karadeniz in "Veliaht" in 2025-2026, Mergen in "Hakan: The Guardian" in 2018-2020, Sinan in "Actually Özgürsun" in 2022, He has played various characters in many TV series and films, such as Ferzan in "Black Beret", Levent in "Letters to the Future" in 2025, and Fatih in "Clean Money" in 2026.

He started his cinema career with Kamil in the movie "Disgust" in 2007, İmza Karşıtı Genç in "Kosmos" in 2009, "Yurt" in 2011, Sergeant in "Jîn" in 2012, Commissioner Ufuk in "Sen Ben Lenin" in 2021, Torlak Kemal in "Hakikat Şeyh Bedrettin" in the same year, "Snow and Snow" in 2022. He played the characters of "Bear", Çetin in "Escape from the Dark" in 2024, Nejat Kanije in "Dehşet Bey" in 2025, and Dragić in "D.I.S.C.O." in 2026.

It is reported that he will also take part in projects called "Chaplin Quartet" and "The Wedding of the Genies" in the near future.

Soysal, who is also an active name on the theater stage, performed as the Police Chief in the play "Sacco and Vanzetti", as Macduff in the 2010 production "Macbeth" and as Tatbikat Sahnesi in the play "Tüy Penler" in 2016.

His achievements include being nominated for the Actor in a Supporting Role of the Year (“Quill Pens”) at the 5th New Theater Magazine Labor and Achievement Awards in 2017, and being nominated for Best Supporting Actor (“You Ben Lenin”) at the 54th Cinema Critics Association Awards in 2022.

Saygın Soysal was born on May 21, 1982 in Ankara, Türkiye.

Productions in which he took part

He took part in 29 productions in total; 12 of the most well-known are listed.

• Capital: Abdulhamid (2017) — Theodor Herzl
• Rebel (2007) — Aslan
• Let's Al Write (2011) — Tahir
• Black Money Love (2014) — Text
• Letters to the Future (2025) — Levent Tunalı
• Maraşlı (2021) — Savaş Yıldırım
• Crown Prince (2025) — Korkut
• Watch (2019) — Gendarmerie Senior Captain Yiğit Alkan
• You Are Actually Free (2022)
• Dehşet Bey (2025) — Nejat Kanije
• Clean Money (2026)
• Stone (2017)

Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.