Aras Bulut İynemli

Aras Bulut İynemli is one of Turkey’s most acclaimed actors of his generation, famous for playing Yamaç Koçovalı in the crime drama Çukur and the wrongly imprisoned father in the record-breaking film 7. Koğuştaki Mucize (Miracle in Cell No. 7). He was born on 25 August 1990.

Career

After a few commercials, İynemli landed a role in the family drama Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman ki (As Time Goes By) in 2010. The series was an international success and won him the Antalya Television Award for Best Supporting Actor at just 20. He studied aeronautical engineering at Istanbul Technical University while building his career.

In 2013 he played Şehzade Bayezid in Magnificent Century and appeared in the Azerbaijani-Turkish film Mahmut and Meryem. He then starred opposite Hazal Kaya in Maral: En Güzel Hikayem (2015) and played the undercover policeman Umut / Mert in İçerde (Insider, 2016–2017).

From 2017 to 2021 he led Çukur as Yamaç, the youngest son of a family that rules an Istanbul neighbourhood. The role won him the Golden Butterfly Award for Best Actor in 2018 and made the show a global hit.

Miracle in Cell No. 7 and Atatürk

In 2019 he played Memo, a man with a mental disability wrongly imprisoned for murder, in 7. Koğuştaki Mucize. The film broke box-office records in Turkey and found a huge new audience on Netflix in France and Latin America. He later portrayed Mustafa Kemal in Atatürk 1881–1919 (2023), earning a Turkish Film Critics Association nomination for Best Actor.

Family

Acting runs in the family: his brother Orçun İynemli is an actor and his sister Yeşim İynemli is a TV host and singer.

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