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Kenan İmirzalıoğlu was born at Üçem Village, Bala, Ankara on June 17th, 1974. He is the third kid of Yıldız and Mustafa İmirzalıoğlu. His brother’s name is Derviş and sister is Zübeyde. İmirzalıoğlu finished elementary school in his village Üçem.

Kenan İmirzalıoğul moved to Ankara, capitol of Turkey when he was 12 years old. He went to middle school and high school at Ankara. Then he moved to İstanbul for his University education. He graduated from Yıldız Technical University. He has a Bachelor of Mathematics degree.

In 1997, he joined Best Model of Turkey finals and he won the contest. Then he joined Best Model of the World contest. He also won the contest as getting the title Best Model of The World. For the first time, a Turkish model got the title Best Model of The World.

After winning the model contest, famous Turkish director Osman Sınav offered him a leading role in the new TV serial Dei Yürek. He joined Deli Yürek cast as Yusuf Miroğlu. The series was on TV screens between 1999 - 2002. He also moved to movie screen for the movie version of the series ‘Deli Yürek : Boomerang Cehennemi’ in 2001.

He went to US for education after Deli Yürek projects. He moved back to Turkey in 2003 for the new TV Series of Actor, Director and Producer Uğur Yücel. ‘Alacakaranlık’ was on TV screens in 2003 - 2005. He is Ferit Çağlayan in this new TV Series.

In 2004, he was in leading role with Olgun Şimşek in the movie Yazı Tura. Director Uğur Yücel’s Yazı Tura film won 16 awards in different festivals. İmirzalıoğlu also won the Best Actor award at Adana Alın Koza Festival, one of the main movie awards organisation of Turkey.

Between 2005 - 2007, he was in TV screens again. The new TV Series was ‘Acı Hayat’. İmirzalıoğlu was ‘Mehmet Kosovalı’ in Acı Hayat. In 2006, He took the leading role in his third movie ‘Son Osmanlı Yandım Ali’.

‘Kabadayı’ was his forth movie project. His partners were Şener Şen, Aslı Tandoğan and İsmail Hacıoğlu in Kabadayı which was on theaters in 2007.

He was in TV screens with ‘Ezel’ in between 2009-2011. Cansu Dere, Yiğit Özşener, Barış Falay, Berrak Tüzünataç, Tunnel Kurtiz and Haluk Bilgier were his partners in Ezel.

In 2010, he joined the cast of movie Ejder Kapanı. Uğur Yücel, Nejat İşler, Ozan Güven, İlker Aksum and Berrak Tüzünataç were also in the leading role of the movie. Director of the film was Uğur Yücel.

In 2012, he was in movie screens with another Osman Sınav project, Uzun Hikaye. He was an idealistic and honest man Bulgaryalı Ali, in Uzun Hikaye. The movie was an adaptation of Mustafa Kutlu’s novel with the same name. Tuğçe Kazaz, Ushan Çakır and Altan Erkekli were also in the movie.

İmirzalıoğlu’s recent project was a TV series called ‘Karadayı’. Karadayı was in TV screens from 2012 till 2015. He was Mahir Kara in the series. His partners were Bergüzar Korel and Metin Tekindor in Karadayı.


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