Biography
Ragıp Reha Özcan was born on 5 July 1965 in Bingöl, where his father was posted as an officer. The family’s roots are in Boyabat, Sinop. He is the youngest of five children, and his elder brother Serhat Özcan is also an actor. He graduated from the theatre department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 1987.
He began on stage that year at the Trabzon State Theatre, moved to the Istanbul State Theatre in 1990 and settled in Antalya in 1992, where he worked as an actor and director for almost twenty years. He returned to Istanbul in 2010 and retired from the State Theatres in 2016.
On television he appeared in Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu, Suskunlar, Karadayı and Maral, then became widely liked as Fikri Elibol in Bizim Hikaye (2017 to 2019), the chief physician Adil Erinç in Mucize Doktor (2019 to 2021) and Sadık Kalender in Üç Kız Kardeş (2022 to 2024). He has been married to the physician Yeşim Özcan since 1991, with whom he has two children. In 2026 he joined Kanal D‘s Haysiyet as Haluk Tarman.
Photo: Serkan Yakın, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
