Acar was born in 1974 in Kozoglu, a small village in the
Kelkit district of
Turkey; he lived in the nearby city of
Erzincan until 1982, when his family emigrated to Germany. Acar earned a degree in
civil engineering, then switched his focus to acting. He started performing in both Turkish and German films, then started
Acar Entertainment in 2007, producing German-Turkish movies. After numerous roles in Turkish, German and South Korean film and television productions, Acar played his first role in an American production in 2014, as Haissam Haqqani in
season four of
Homeland. He reprised the role in 2020 for
Homeland eighth and final season. He portrayed
Dmitri Smerdyakov in the 2019
Marvel film,
Spider-Man: Far From Home. Acar, who lives in
Berlin, speaks several languages fluently including
German,
Turkish,
Spanish and
English and has knowledge of
Kurdish,
Azerbaijani and
Arabic. ==Filmography==