Caner Cindoruk

Caner Cindoruk is a Turkish actor and theatre director, best known as Volkan Arslan in the hit drama Sadakatsiz (The Unfaithful), and for Hanımın Çiftliği, Kadın and Aramızda Kalsın. He was born on 17 April 1980 in Adana.

A life in the theatre

Cindoruk grew up backstage: his father is the story writer Zafer Doruk, a two-time winner of the Orhan Kemal Story Award, and his uncle Erdal Cindoruk is a theatre actor. He studied business administration at Çukurova University while acting in student productions, made his professional debut in 1997 with the Adana Seyhan Municipality Theatre and spent ten years with Adana’s theatres before moving to Istanbul in 2006. He later starred in the musical İstanbulname produced by Türker İnanoğlu.

Television career

His TV debut came in 2007 with Kara Güneş. Critics praised his Doctor Nazmi in the classic adaptation Yaprak Dökümü, and in 2009 he starred in Hanımın Çiftliği, based on Orhan Kemal’s novel. In 2016 he led İstanbul Sokakları with Gizem Karaca.

With Özge Özpirinçci he starred in the acclaimed drama Kadın, a Turkish remake of Japan’s Woman, and later in Aramızda Kalsın. From 2020 to 2022 he played Volkan, the unfaithful husband, opposite Cansu Dere in Sadakatsiz, the Turkish adaptation of Doctor Foster, which became one of the most watched dramas of its time.

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