Ali Önsöz is a Turkish actor. He acted in Sana Söz (True Lies/Promise To You), Darmaduman (Shattered, also: Mert Yazıcıoğlu & Aytaç Şaşmaz), Ateş Kuşları (Firebirds, also: Burak Tozkoparan & Erdem Şanlı), Kuruluş: Osman (Establishment: Osman, also: Burak Özçivit, Seray Kaya, Faruk Aran, Belgin Şimşek & more) and as Fikret in A.B.İ. – Aile Bir İmtihandır (A Broken Inheritance/Family Is a Trial, also: Yaren Yapıcı, Ardıl Zümrüt, Mert Demirci, Tuğçe Açıkgöz, Sinan Tuzcu, Kenan İmirzalıoğlu, Asude Kalebek & Afra Saraçoğlu) and more.
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Facts:
- he became famous in 2020 with a simple video
- before going to the military, he had long hair and he filmed the video after shaving it off because he was about to enlist, he was very upset in the video, since he “looked like Keloğlan” (Bald Boy – Turkic and Altai Mythology Character)
- it was actually a dubbed video and not something he expected to reach ten million views, but it ended up going viral
- his childhood was somewhat difficult, his family moved from Isparta to Antalya and later to Istanbul, he never stayed at the same school for more than two years
- he was not easily accepted by his peer group and was often excluded, experiencing bullying many times
- even by the people he considered his closest friends, he often felt marginalised
- eventually, tired of peer bullying, he completed high school through open education
- around the age of nineteen or twenty, he slowly began to feel more accepted by those around him
- he is very active on X, shares funny posts and regularly interacts with his fans
- he considers himself a very soft-hearted person
- in his view, forgiveness is closely related to one’s conscience and how much one loves oneself
- he believes that when people forgive, they first do it for themselves, after the hurt cools down, they forgive in order to ease their own conscience in the inner court of their mind
- forgiveness, he thinks, both lightens and relieves a person, because in the end, one first forgives oneself
