Toygun Ateş

Toygun Ateş (2 June 1954, Istanbul – 19 February 2021, Malatya) is a Turkish theatre, cinema and TV series actor, director, screenwriter and voice actor. He has appeared in more than a hundred films and TV series in his career of approximately forty-five years.

Career

He graduated from the theater department of Istanbul Municipal Conservatory. After working on stage for a long time, he switched to cinema in 1976. In addition to acting, he also worked as a voice-over and voice-over director, wrote scripts and directed. He staged the theater play named Mahalle Raid, which reinterpreted the tradition of Karagöz and Hacivat.

He worked extensively in television, especially in the 2000s and 2010s. Aşk-ı Memnu, What is Fatmagül's crime? and appeared in supporting roles in widely watched TV series such as Huzur Sokak; He played Emin in Fatmagül'ün Crime Ne? and Hikmet in Huzur Sokak.

death

He was in Malatya for the shooting of the movie Gizemli Köy at the beginning of 2021. In the test performed on symptoms of weakness, he was diagnosed with COVID-19 and was taken to the intensive care unit of İnönü University Turgut Özal Medical Center. After nine days of treatment, he died on February 19, 2021, at the age of 66, due to disease-related organ failure.