Murat Karasu

Murat Karasu was born on 8 March 1961 in the Akyazı district of Sakarya Province, Turkey. He attended primary and middle school in Sakarya and high school in Istanbul. He decided to become an actor in his final year of high school. In 1985 he graduated from the Theatre Department of the State Conservatory at Mimar Sinan University. After graduating he worked with the State Theatres as an actor and director in Bursa, Ankara and Istanbul, and directed productions in Adana, Diyarbakır and Trabzon as well. In 1993 he took the play Midas'ın Kulakları, staged by the Ankara Maliye Theatre, to the 10th AITA/IATA World Amateur Theatre Festival in Monaco. He has also written two plays, Hüzün Mahallesi Otobüsü and Kaplumbağanın Ninnisi; the first was published and staged by the State Theatres. On screen he has appeared in Yılan Hikayesi (1999, as Genco), Abdülhamit Düşerken (2002), Sis ve Gece (2007, as Tevfik), Sinyora Enrica ile İtalyan Olmak (2010), Sürgün (2013), Adı Efsane (2017, as the principal), Vuslat (2019, as Faik Çağlar), Var Bunlar (2022, as Bahri), Ben Bu Cihana Sığmazam (2022, as Lokman Çınar) and Aşk Mevsimi (2024, as Sadık). He teaches at Haliç and Yeditepe universities, works in dubbing and once worked as a presenter. He is head of the Istanbul branch of TOBAV, the foundation for State Opera and Ballet employees. He is the maternal uncle of State Theatre actor Tayfun Erarslan.