Haluk Bilginer, who graduated from the department of drama in the Turkish State Conservatoire, started his artistic life in England and made his most important career decisions there. He has continued along the path of success back in his own country and has been maintaining the steady progress to being a worthwhile actor for the past thirty-one years.

During the first years of your career you spent more than
10 years in England. You took part in important projects. What effect did this period have on your career?
It is safe to say that my career started in England. I went to England in 1977 and stayed there without any breaks until 1993. Later on I returned to Turkey and opened the Drama Studio with Amet Levendoglu and Zuhal Olcay. This is how I started to play roles in the theatre, cinema and TV. At first, acting in Turkish seemed a bit weird to me.