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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1992-06-21 (32 years old)

Place of Birth

Antalya, Turkey

Ekin Koç

Biography:

İsmet Ekin Koç (born 21 June 1992) is a Turkish actor and musician. Koç left Antalya to study Business Administration (English) at the Istanbul Bilgi University and start to study online education sociology.

His first movie was Senden Bana Kalan, which is the adaptation of the Korean movie A Millionaire's First Love. He played the main role "Özgür Arıca", for which he won an Ayhan Işık Special Award. Shortly after, he played the one eyed soldier "Mehmed" in the British movie Ali and Nino, in which Maria Valverde and Adam Bakri were the lead actors. The movie is an adaptation of Kurban Said's novel (1937) and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

He starred in the film Bizim İçin: Şampiyon, based life story of jockey Halis Karataş. He is producer and actor of short film App.

He went to Cannes Film Festival with films Okul Tıraşı, Kurak Günler and short film Büyük Uçuş.

Known For

Acting

2025

2024

Rock Paper Scissors as Umut Tanrıkulu

2023

2022

Burning Days as Murat

2021

Brother's Keeper as Teacher Selim

2020

The Great Seljuks as Ahmed Sencer

2019

2018

One Love as Halis Karataş
Steppe as Nuri Pamir
Succession as Kadir

2017

7 Faces as Kaan
The Secrets of Life as Burak Ozer

2016

Ali and Nino as Mehmed

2015

2014

2013

I'll Give You A Secret as Kıvanç "Tilki" Gündoğdu

Production

2025

The Things You Kill as Co-Producer

2023

Things Unheard Of as Producer