Biography
Sermiyan Midyat was born on 2 December 1974 in Ankara into a Kurdish family from Mardin and is the grandson of Zekiye Midyat. He trained in theatre at Nöbetçi Tiyatro with Ferhan Şensoy, Derya Baykal, Rasim Öztekin and Tuncel Kurtiz, and also studied at the Kadıköy Public Education Centre and briefly at Istanbul University. He works as an actor, screenwriter and director, and has written song lyrics for Mustafa Ceceli and Özcan Deniz.
Television viewers first noticed him as Arıza Hamza in Emret Komutanım, and he later appeared in Sıla and Kırık Kanatlar. In cinema he wrote, directed and starred in Ay Lav Yu (2010), Hükümet Kadın (2012), Hükümet Kadın 2 (2013) and Bir Baba Hindu (2016). The comedies won him festival awards, including best actor and best director prizes in Boston.
In 2026 he returned to television after a long break as Kadir Ağa in Kanal D‘s Karakuyu, the powerful man who stands in the way of Ferda’s search for justice.
