Biography
Erkan Can was born on 1 November 1958 in Bursa to a family of Bulgarian immigrants. He began at the Bursa State Theatre in 1975 as a teenager, graduated from the theatre department of the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory in 1990 and started his professional career at the Bakırköy Municipal Theatre. Television audiences got to know him as Temel in Mahallenin Muhtarları (1992).
In cinema he won the Golden Orange for best actor as the ship’s captain in Gemide (1998) and again as Muharrem in Takva (2006), which also brought him the Asia Pacific Screen Award for best actor. He played Mela Hüseyin in Vizontele and has appeared in more than sixty feature films, including Dar Alanda Kısa Paslaşmalar, Yazı Tura and Müslüm.
In 2026 he joined atv‘s Aynı Yağmur Altında as Mürsel Baba, the mentor of the male lead. The series is produced by Baba Yapım and also stars Hülya Avşar and Fikret Kuşkan.
