Volkan Isikol

Born and raised in Republic of Turkey, he grew up in Marmara Region of southern district of City of Istanbul. Volkan Isikol was a professional Arm-wrestler in his early teenage years. He attended many domestic and national tournaments in Turkey. Before becoming an Arm-wrestler he played soccer for 1 year at local city major soccer team youth under 16 division. That year he failed most of his major science classes in high school, which he was in social science major but wanted to prove that he was also good at science; none of the less, his father pulled him of the soccer team because of the bad grades in that semester. That decision which turned out to be a major life change for him when he start to attend Armwrestling practices with his friends to replace soccer and try to prove himself. 1998 Summer major life change happened for him, he moved to United States to attend Armwrestling tournaments in mid-west. He want to get better in Armwrestling by practicing and attending as many as tournaments possible so that he could show better performance to get selected for the European or World championships for his National Team. What he didn't know was that, Armwrestling was just a stepping stone for what the future would brought out for him. 1999 Fall he injured in state tournament and stop Armwrestling and attend to collage in Florida state, city of Tampa. He lived there quite a time but something wasn't right, his inside voice, his conscious mind was telling him to move to California state and pursue his acting carrier. So he did!!! 2010 Fall he moved to California and attended to acting school in N.Hollywood. He learned Meisner and Chekhov techniques. He totally hooked the intuitive style and freedom of the technique. He fell in love with living in between Action and Cut. it was a different experience, experience that he was searching for all his life. He enjoyed very much of the roller coaster ride which his acting teacher described the experience!!! 2011 Winter, he had to move back to Turkey for family reasons. He did not stop pursuing his dream, so he kept searching for projects and attended auditions. Lucky enough, he placed himself in one of the major TV show project. Additional to his acting career, he is also presenter and does voice overs as well.