Biography of Halit Ergench: from the marketer to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Halit Ergench is a well-known Turkish actor, whose popularity has grown many times since the start of the television series "The Magnificent Century". However, few people, looking at the formidable Sultan Suleiman, might think that the actor who embodied this image, in due time could become an architect and a shipbuilder.

April 30, 1970 - a significant date for the Turkish cinema, it was on this day was born Halit Ergenc. Biography, photo, filmography of the actor - all this became interesting to the audience after a succession of successful television series with his participation. The main pearl in his work is "The Magnificent Age."

The biography of Halit Ergenca is closely connected with Istanbul, where he was born and raised in the family of the popular theater and cinema actor Sait Ergench. After receiving a secondary education, Halit thought about the future for a long time, and eventually entered one of the universities of Istanbul, planning to engage in shipbuilding and architecture.

Studying at the university did not like Ergenc, so after two semesters he decided to quit college and become a student of the theater and opera department of the Mimar Sinan University. During his studies, Halit had to work as a marketer and PC operator to earn his living. The biography of Khalit Ergenca testifies that he had to work even as a dancer and singer in several musical groups.

1996 brought to life the actor of change - Halit became a member of the Dormen Theater troupe, where he was entrusted with the main role in the production of "The King and I". But this Ergencu was not enough, and he thought about how to subdue the cinema. Initially, the actor was not lucky with the screen test, but fate had mercy on him.

The film biography of Halit Ergenca begins with the serial film "Black Angel". Since then, the actor plays in parallel in the theater and is filming a movie. Theatrical critics highly assessed the role of Ergench in the performances "Sweet charity" and "Love me". The glory of a talented actor reached Hollywood, and Halita was invited to work on the musical "Adventures of Zak".

In 2000, Ergench returned to Turkey and continued to actively act in films and play in the theater. Separately worth noting multi-series film "Aliye", where Halit lucky enough to work with Neyat Isler and San Celik, the stars of Turkish cinema. In 2009, Ergencu phoned Timur Savzhi and offered to play the role of Suleiman I the Magnificent in the new series.

Here, the creative biography of Khalit Ergench stops for a while, because for a year he waited for the filming of the "Magnificent Age", and all this time he read materials about his hero. In the interview, the actor admitted that the image of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire for understanding was quite complex and ambiguous, but working on it is extremely interesting.

However, all this is nothing compared to the popularity that fell on the actor named Halit Ergench. Biography, wife, son of Ali - all this interested the fans of the series "The Magnificent Age." It came to the point that Khalit's son is named Shehzadeh Ali by analogy with the children of Sultan Suleiman. Ergench himself refers to this with irony, arguing that one day this will end.

Since 2010, Halit Ergench works only on the site of the "Magnificent Age". The end of the series is scheduled for the spring of 2014. What exactly the actor will do after the completion of the historical saga is still unknown.