Ugur Gunes
Uğur Güneş
- Born
- November 10, 1987 · Ankara
- Occupation
- Actor
- Known for
- Bir Zamanlar Çukurova, Resurrection Ertugrul
Biography
Uğur Güneş is a Turkish actor known for Yılmaz Akkaya in Bir Zamanlar Çukurova (Bitter Lands), Tuğtekin Bey in Diriliş: Ertuğrul and the title role of Selahaddin: Kudüs’ün Fatihi. He was born on 10 November 1987 in Ankara, where he grew up and studied at Ankara University.
Career
Güneş first became famous as Tuğtekin in Diriliş: Ertuğrul, a role that won him an Actor of the Year award from the Ministry of Youth in Ankara. He then received wide praise and a Jury Special Award for the counter-terrorism series İsimsizler (2017).
From 2018 to 2021 he played Yılmaz, the young man who flees to the cotton fields of Çukurova with the woman he loves, in Bir Zamanlar Çukurova, alongside Hilal Altınbilek and Murat Ünalmış. He received the Best Series Trio award at the 24th Golden Lens Awards in 2019 for the role.
In 2023 he took the lead role of the 12th-century sultan Saladin in the historical epic Selahaddin: Kudüs’ün Fatihi (Saladin: Conqueror of Jerusalem).
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