Kerem Bursin

Kerem Bursin is an actor who was born in Istanbul, Turkey, and spent his childhood in seven countries before his family settled in Sugar Land, Texas, where he took up acting in high school and won a best actor award for the state of Texas. He studied Marketing Communications at Emerson College in Boston while appearing in student films and plays, and finished his last semester in Los Angeles, where he stayed. His first television role came in Roger Corman's Sharktopus (2010), followed by another Corman picture, Palace of the Damned. He then moved to Istanbul, where the hit series Gunesi Beklerken/Waiting for the Sun cast him as the lead, Kerem Sayer, and brought him awards and recognition across Turkey, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Cagan Irmak then cast him in Whisper If I Forget (2014) as Erhan, a young bass player in 1970s Istanbul, and he later led Seref Meselesi/Matter of Respect.