Ercan Kesal was born on 12 September 1959 in Avanos, Nevsehir, Turkey. He is an actor and writer, known for Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011), You Know Him (2020) and The Pit (2016). He has been married to Nazan Kesal since 2005.

Filmography

• Museum of Innocence
• 2026Sevda — Writer
• 2025Abandoned Man — Mesut
• 2025Athlete
• Crown Prince — Zülfikar Karslı
• The Eighth Family
• 2025The Reeds
• 2025The Things You Kill — Father / Hamit, Executive Producer
• 2025İdea
• 2024Such Things Don’t Happen in This World
• The Late Offices — Melih
• Magarsus — Halil Kurak
• Deception — Ali Sezai Okuyan
• 2022Hopeful Dark Journey — Yılmaz
• 2022Paperflower — Remzi
• 2022The Criminals — Hôtelier 2
• 2021Love Me Instead — Sedat
• The Bad Penny — Halit
• 20209,75 — Dr. Haydar
• Aleph
• 2020Kısmet — Necati
• 2020You Know Him — Dr. Kemal Güner, Director, Writer, Producer
• 2019Black Sun
• 2019Passed by Censor
• 2018After Hazelnut — Director, Writer
• 2018Butterflies — Çoban
• 2018The Smell of Money
• 2017Cold Hell — Gökhan
• 2017Eksi Bir
• 2017Sideway
• 2017The Announcement — Writer
• The Pit — İdris Koçovalı (Sadece Sesi)
• Insider — Köstenceli Akın Işık
• 2015Nausea — Doktor
• 2014Whitewash — The Father
• 2013Government Woman — Aziz Veysel Nuroğlu
• 2013Government Woman 2 — Aziz Veysel Nuroğlu
• 2013I Am Not Him — Nihat / Necip
• 2013Mold — Basri
• 2013Swing — Writer
• 2013Thou Gild'st the Even — İrfan
• 2013Yozgat Blues — Yavuz
• 2012Shift 12-48 — Selim
• 2012Take a Deep Breath — Doctor
• 2011Once Upon a Time in Anatolia — Muhtar, Writer
• 2010Hair
• 2009Vavien — Süleyman
• 2008Making of Three Monkeys
• 2008Three Monkeys — Servet, Writer
• 2002Distant

Appearances as themselves (1)

• The Agency — Self