Biography
Sermet Yeşil was born on 25 May 1977 in Eskişehir. He graduated from the Ankara State Conservatory at Hacettepe University and completed a master’s at Anadolu University. He has performed with the Ankara State Theatre, Ankara Art Theatre and Tiyatro Anadolu, and has been part of Eskişehir City Theatres since 2005.
On screen he often plays hard, dangerous men: Halil in Çukur (2018 to 2020), Ahmet in Behzat Ç. Bir Ankara Polisiyesi, the Joker in Leyla ile Mecnun, Sarı Cemal in Karadayı, Deli İbrahim in Şubat and Shah Tahmasp in Muhteşem Yüzyıl. He played the title role in Reha Erdem’s film Kosmos (2009) and also appeared in Kaç Para Kaç, Gişe Memuru and Kapı, and more recently in Yargı, Kötü Kan and Prens.
In 2026 he joined Show TV‘s Sevdan Bir Ateş in a guest role as Nasim El Malik, the trafficker in Aleppo who held Leyla captive for seven years.
