Burak Hakkı (; born 23 May 1972) is a Turkish actor and model.

Biography

After the Ottoman Empire collapsed, his paternal family which is of Turkish descent immigrated from

Komotini Komotini (, , ), is a city in the Modern regions of Greece, region of East Macedonia and Thrace, northeastern Greece and its capital. It is also the capital of the Rhodope (regional unit), Rhodope. It was the administrative centre of the Rhodope- ...

and

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. He won the

Best Model of Turkey Best Model of Turkey is a female or male beauty competition. From 1988 to 1993, only Turkey's best female model was chosen in the competition. Since 1993, male models are also included. There were two exceptions: in 2004 when in addition to a mal ...

in 1994. He was a basketball player in Nasaş Basketball Club. Hakkı is best known for his roles as Hüseyin Kenan in ''

Dudaktan Kalbe ''Dudaktan Kalbe'' ("From the Lips to the Heart") is a Turkish television series. It stars Burak Hakkı and Aslı Tandoğan. It is the fifth adaptation of Reşat Nuri Güntekin's famous novel, ''Dudaktan Kalbe''. The 2007 adaptation takes place in ...

'' based on the classic novel by

Reşat Nuri Güntekin Reşat Nuri Güntekin () (25 November 1889 – 7 December 1956) was a Turkish novelist, storywriter, and playwright. His best known novel, ''Çalıkuşu'' ("The Wren", 1922) is about the destiny of a young Turkish female teacher in Anatolia. Th ...

and as

Kayqubad I 'Alā' ad-Dīn Kay-qubād ibn-e Kay-xusraw (; , 1190–1237), also known as Kayqubad I, was the Seljuq Turkish Sultan of Rûm who reigned from 1220 to 1237. He expanded the borders of the sultanate at the expense of his neighbors, particula ...

the Seljuq Sultan of Rûm in '' Diriliş: Ertuğrul'' and as Ali in Kaybolan Yıllar. Hakkı acted in "Bir Günah Gibi" series which not a direct adaptation of second novel "Kurt Seyt ve Murka" by Nermin Bezmen. It cancelled due to low ratings series. He played in series ''Yeniden Çalıkuşu'' which is not a direct adaptation of the classic novel

Çalıkuşu ''Çalıkuşu'', or ''The Wren'', is a novel by Reşat Nuri Güntekin written in 1922, about the destiny of a young Turkish people, Turkish female teacher named Feride. The novel originally appeared as a serialized story in the newspaper "Vakit ...

. But the series cancelled.

Filmography

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hakki, Burak Living people 1969 births Male actors from Istanbul Turkish male television actors