Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ is a Turkish

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 actor

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 and model

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.

Early life

Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ was born in Adana

Adana

Adana is a city in southern Turkey and a major agricultural and commercial center. The city is situated on the Seyhan River, 30 kilometres inland from the Mediterranean, in south-central Anatolia...

 in southern Turkey. He has four siblings. The name Kıvanç means "pride" in Turkish and Tatlıtuğ is a portmanteau of the Turkish words tatlı (meaning "sweet") and tuğ (the tail of a horse). Tatlıtuğ is of Bosnian

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 ancestry. Kıvanç was sent to Yenice Çağ Private High School

Yenice Çağ Private High School

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 by his family where he excelled in basketball

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. Due to his father's illness, Kıvanç and his family moved to Istanbul

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 so his father could get the proper treatment. In Istanbul, he joined Fenerbahçe Ülker

Fenerbahçe Ülker

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 sports club as an amateur basketball player.

Career

Tatlıtuğ was recruited by the Gaye Sökmen modelling agency after his mother sent pictures of him. He won the "Best Model of Turkey

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" modeling pageant and went on to win the "Best Model of the World", an international modelling pageant in October 2001. Since then, Kıvanç has been working as a professional model and actor.

Kıvanç also hosted some pageants and shows. A turning point in Tatlıtuğ's career was when he starred in Gümüş

Gümüs

"Gümüş" , a Turkish melodrama originally broadcast in Turkey by Kanal D from 2005 to 2007. The sudser became a pop-culture phenomenon when it aired across the Arab world as "Noor" last year...

as the character Mehmet Şadoğlu. He acted in the comedy movie "Amerikalılar Karadeniz'de 2" which was directed by Kartal Tibet

Kartal Tibet

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. He has also starred in other shows such as "Menekşe ile Halil" where he played alongside of Sedef Avcı. In his latest TV series "Aşk-ı Memnu", Kıvanç starred with Beren Saat

Beren Saat

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 where he played a cowardly, selfish casanova that has an affair with his uncle's beautiful young wife. He won the "Altın Kelebek Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role" for his performance in "Aşk-ı Memnu". Kıvanç dated Miss World 2002

Miss World 2002

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 Azra Akın

Azra Akin

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 from 2005 to 2009 and actress Meltem Cumbul

Meltem Cumbul

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 from early 2009 to August 2009. He dated İdil Fırat, the daughter of millionaire Önder Fırat, but they broke up.Kivanc returned to television in 2011 with the series Kuzey Güney.

He has been dubbed "the Middle East's Brad Pitt

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" due to his popularity in the Arab World

Arab world

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. Because many of the series which he acted in was sent to broadcast to Arab World after original broadcast in Turkey. He was chosen the "sexiest Turkish man alive" on a poll conducted by the Turkish daily Hürriyet

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 in July 2009.

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Americans at the Black Sea Americans at the Black Sea Americans at the Black Sea is a 2007 Turkish comedy film, directed by Kartal Tibet, about a U.S. military recovery operation on Turkey's Black Sea coast...	Muzaffer
2010	Toy Story 3 Toy Story 3 Toy Story 3 is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated comedy-adventure film, and the third installment in the Toy Story series. It was produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed by Lee Unkrich. The film was released worldwide from June through October in Disney Digital... (Turkish dubbed version)	Ken	Voice acting

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Gümüş Gümüs "Gümüş" , a Turkish melodrama originally broadcast in Turkey by Kanal D from 2005 to 2007. The sudser became a pop-culture phenomenon when it aired across the Arab world as "Noor" last year...	Mehmet Şadoğlu	TV series
2007	Menekşe ile Halil	Halil Tuğlu	TV series
2008	Aşk-ı Memnu Ask-i Memnu (TV series) Aşk-ı Memnu is a Turkish romantic drama television series produced by Ay Yapım Productions and originally broadcasting by Kanal D between 2008 and 2010...	Behlül Haznedar	TV series
2010	Ezel Ezel (TV series) Ezel is a Turkish crime drama TV series that was initially broadcasted by Show TV in autumn 2009. In 2010, it was transferred to ATV. It has since gained a considerably large fan base in Turkey...	Sekiz /Ramiz Karaeski	TV series (few episodes)
2011	Kuzey Güney Kuzey Güney Kuzey Güney is a Turkish TV series, staring Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, Buğra Gülsoy and Öykü Karayel. This is the story of two brothers Kuzey and Güney. Kuzey is bold but rash, rebellious, has difficulty to control his anger, fearless, can't tolerate injustice, impatient and let's his fists do the talking...	Kuzey Tekinoğlu	TV series

External links

• Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ at the SinemaTürk