Biography
Ulaş Tuna Astepe was born on 5 May 1988 in İzmit, Kocaeli, into a working-class family with Romanian-immigrant roots. His father died after the 1999 Gölcük earthquake, when Ulaş was eleven, and his mother died of an illness while he was in high school. He and his older brother grew up together. He finished İstanbul Erkek Lisesi and graduated from the theatre department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory.
He began working as a costume assistant, including on the film Osmanlı Cumhuriyeti, before his first professional screen role as Orhan Kara in atv’s Karadayı (2012 to 2015). His breakthrough was Tahir Kaleli in Sen Anlat Karadeniz (2018 to 2019), for which he and İrem Helvacıoğlu won Best TV Couple at the 45th Altın Kelebek Awards.
He has since led Barbaroslar: Akdeniz’in Kılıcı as Hızır Reis, Hayat Bugün, Çift Kişilik Oda and BluTV’s İlk ve Son. In October 2025 he took the lead as Adil Koçari in TRT 1‘s Taşacak Bu Deniz, whose second season premiered on 2 October 2026.
