Kenan İmirzalıoğlu is a Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 actor.

Biography

Kenan İmirzalıoğlu was born as the youngest of three children to Mustafa and Yıldız İmirzalıoğlu in the village of Üçem in Balâ

Bala, Ankara

Bala is a town and district of Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, 67 km south-east of the city of Ankara. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 19,426 of which 8,506 live in the urban center of Bala. The district covers an area of , and the average...

, Ankara Province

Ankara Province

Ankara Province in central Turkey is the location of the country's capital, the city of Ankara.Ankara also gave its name to the Ottoman Empire's Ankara Province which covered a larger area than the current province.- Geography :...

. At age 12, he moved to the city of Ankara

Ankara

Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....

 for his middle studies. He graduated in Mathematics from Yıldız Technical University

Yildiz Technical University

Yildiz Technical University is a technical university dedicated to engineering sciences and is one of the most prominent educational institutions in Istanbul, Turkey. The central campus lies within the Beşiktaş district.-History:Yildiz Technical University has a distinguished history which began...

. He won the Best Model Of Turkey in 1997 along with Deniz Akkaya.

He caught the eye of director Osman Sınav

Osman Sınav

Osman Sınav is a Turkish director, producer and screenwriter.-Biography:He studied Art at the İstanbul State Fine Arts Academy and also finished courses there in Textile Design as well as cinema and television. From 1979-1980, he worked as a copywriter, and from 1980-1984 in the Grafika Lintas...

  who cast him in the TV series Deli Yürek (Crazy Heart). He also starred in its spinoff film Deli Yürek: Bumerang Cehennemi

Deli Yürek: Bumerang Cehennemi

Deli Yürek: Bumerang Cehennemi is a 2001 Turkish action film, written and directed by Osman Sınav. It is spun off from the TV series Deli Yürek.-Plot:...

(Crazy Heart: Boomerang Hell). He then acted in Alacakaranlık (Dusk) written and directed by Uğur Yücel

Ugur Yücel

Uğur Yücel is a Turkish film actor, producer and director. He graduated from the Theater department at the Istanbul Municipality Conservatory . He took part in several plays between 1975 and 1984 in Kenter Tiyatosu , Tef Kaber Theatre, Dormen Theatre, and Şan Müzikholü...

 and Yazı Tura (Toss up) which featured the same cast. In 2005, İmirzalıoğlu played the lead role in Osman Sınav's Aci Hayat (Bitter Life) based on the 1962 film of the same name. He followed that by lead roles in the action films Son Osmanlı Yandım Ali

Son Osmanlı Yandım Ali

The Last Ottoman: Knockout Ali is a 2007 Turkish action film, directed by Mustafa Şevki Doğan based on the comic book by Suat Yalaz, starring Kenan İmirzalıoğlu as the titular hero Tahtacızade "Yandım" Ali, who is inspired by the landing of Mustafa Kemal at Samsun and decides to join the...

(The Last Ottoman: Knockout Ali) and Kabadayı (For Love and Honor). He returned to television in 2009 with the series Ezel and also starred in the action film Ejder Kapanı (Dragon Trap) directed by Uğur Yücel.

Series

• Deli Yürek (Yusuf Miroğlu) (1999–2003)
• Alacakaranlık (Ferit Çağlayan) (2003–2005)
• Acı Hayat (Mehmet Kosovalı) (2005–2007)(bali)
• Ezel
  Ezel (TV series)
  Ezel is a Turkish crime drama TV series that was initially broadcasted by Show TV in autumn 2009. In 2010, it was transferred to ATV. It has since gained a considerably large fan base in Turkey...
  
  (Ezel Bayraktar) (2009-2011)

Films

• Deli Yürek: Bumerang Cehennemi
  Deli Yürek: Bumerang Cehennemi
  Deli Yürek: Bumerang Cehennemi is a 2001 Turkish action film, written and directed by Osman Sınav. It is spun off from the TV series Deli Yürek.-Plot:...
  
  (Yusuf Miroğlu) (2001)
• Yazı Tura (Hayalet Cevher) (2004)
• Son Osmanlı Yandım Ali
  Son Osmanlı Yandım Ali
  The Last Ottoman: Knockout Ali is a 2007 Turkish action film, directed by Mustafa Şevki Doğan based on the comic book by Suat Yalaz, starring Kenan İmirzalıoğlu as the titular hero Tahtacızade "Yandım" Ali, who is inspired by the landing of Mustafa Kemal at Samsun and decides to join the...
  
  (Yandım Ali) (2006)
• Kabadayı (Devran) (2007)
• Ejder Kapanı (Akrep Celal) (2009)