Cihat Süvarioğlu

Cihat Süvarioğlu is a Turkish actor. He acted in Diğer Yarım (My Lost Half), Ölene Kadar (Eternal/Until Death, also: Fahriye Evcen & Engin Akyürek), Kelebekler (Butterflies, also: Ezgi Mola), Hakan: Muhafız (The Protector, also: Çağatay Ulusoy), Yüzleşme (Lost Scent, also: Yiğit Kirazcı), Kronoloji (Chronology, also: Birkan Sokullu), Yarım Kalan Aşklar (Interrupted/Unfinished Love, also: Dilan Çiçek Deniz), Kuvvetli Bir Alkış (A Round of Applause, also: Uraz Kaygılaroğlu), Gönül Dağı (An Anatolian Tale, also: Hande Nur Tekin), Sevdiğim Sensin (Trans.: You Are The One I Love, also: Deniz Işın, Barış Baktaş, Aytaç Şaşmaz & Helin Kandemir) and more.

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Facts:

• he spent his childhood years in Kayseri – Türkiye, growing up in Anatolia helped him develop an ear for different accents and dialects
• Cihat‘s acting career began with the theatre club at Marmara University
  • his interest in acting was discovered through a friend’s encouragement and gradually turned into a profession
• he stated that he began his acting career overweight and later went through a weight-loss process to avoid being typecast into stereotypical roles in the industry
• he gained widespread recognition in Türkiye for his portrayal of Ramazan in the TV series Gönül Dağı (An Anatolian Tale)
  • the character’s humour, dreamer personality, sincerity and emotional depth made it his most beloved role
• he has acted in numerous short films and festival films
• loves traveling and has visited many countries so far, in the future, he hopes to visit Peru and Cape Town
• he has stated that he finds it difficult to live a fully planned life, but his morning coffee is an essential daily ritual
• interests of his include traveling, theatre, cinema, music and sports
• people who meet him for the first time generally don’t like him much, probably because he feels shy and tries to appear cool and distant
  • he doesn’t open up immediately, he needs to get to know the person first and once he does he lets himself be and opens up
  • in some people, shyness can appear as arrogance or coldness, he experiences this too, but in reality, it is purely shyness, he says
• when asked why he became an actor, he says that the answer changes every year
  • if he simply says “I love it” he wonders to himself “What exactly do I love about it?”
  • he feels that expressing himself through a character comes more naturally, because talking about himself directly is very difficult