Gurhan Elmalıoglu – Professional ACTOR, He was born in 1967 in Ankara, Turkey. He finished high school in Ankara. He got into basketball and footballl as well as many other sports. He fell in love with the art of acting while studying American Language and Literature at the Istanbul University. This love for acting carried him overseas to England and then to America. He got his B.A. at Buffalo State College and at the Pennsylvania State University, he completed the professional acting program and earned his M.F.A. He got into T’ai Chi Chuan, Stage combat and movement. After he returned his homeland in 1999, he taught at Maltepe University, Yeditepe University, Akademi Istanbul and Akademi 35bucuk as well as acting. He met the love of his life, Ozlem, in a commercial shoot and got married. Defne and Ruzgar gave him the chance to be dad and made him very happy…

• Actor Combatant: S.A.F.D. Certified with Excellence (Hand to Hand, Rapier & Dagger, Broadsword) 
• Bilingual: English & Turkish

• Accents/Dialect: Middle Eastern, Italian, French, Chicano and Indian 
• T’ai Chi Chuan and most sports

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