Hayat Van Eck

Born: None

Dutch origin Turkish actor. He played World Weightlifting Champion Naim Suleymanoglu as the leading actor in the movie Pocket Hercules: Naim Suleymanoglu, where his life story is told. Born in Amsterdam to a Dutch father and a Turkish mother originally from Ankara, Van Eck lived in the Netherlands until the age of 6 and moved to Izmir with his family and grew up here. Van Eck played the role of Gaza in the movie Daha / More, written by Onur Saylak in 2017. Received the Promising Young Actor Award at the 24th Adana Golden Boll Film Festival. Van Eck once again worked with Onur Saylak and Hakan Günday in the movie 'Boga Boga', which was completed in 2022 and will be released in 2023.


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Chokehold

as Gaza
Released: 2023-04-21

Evading a scandal, a couple from Istanbul starts over in a town on the Aegean coast — but...

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Pocket Hercules: Naim Suleymanoglu

as Naim Süleymanoğlu
Released: 2019-11-22

From defecting to the Olympics, an underdog weightlifter powers through adversity to raise up...

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More

as Gaza
Released: 2017-07-03

Gaza is a 14-year-old boy who lives on the Aegean coast of Turkey. Together with his domineering...

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Belonging

as Kemal
Released: 2023-09-06

Zeki is a freerunner whose life is turned upside down when his father, the widower Mahir,...

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Yol Arkadaşım

as uncredited
First aired: 2008-05-12

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