HAYAT VAN ECK

ACTING

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.