Metin Akdülger

Metin Akdülger was born on 10 April 1988 in Bursa. His family were Turkish immigrants from Thessaloniki and Skopje, and he spent his childhood on a farmhouse. He realized that he had an interest in acting while taking part in small plays in high school and shooting short films with his friends. But instead of enrolling in conservatory, he decided to study international relations and political science "to learn what is happening in the world". He moved from Bursa to Istanbul to study international relations at Koç University. When he was in the third year of his studies, he learned that Yıldız Kenter was teaching at his school and started to attend her classes. He was Kenter's assistant for a while. The first play he took part in at the university was an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. He wanted the role of Tybalt in the play, but ended up portraying Romeo. After taking Kenter's classes, he decided to try method acting, and in 2012 he took acting lessons from Merve Taşkan. In the same year he started working with Craft Theatre. His first professional theatre debut came in 2012, with a role in an adaptation of Stephen Belber's Tape, which was directed by Tevfik Şahin. He portrayed the character of Vince on stage.