Bülent Özdil was born in 1981 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber and grew up in Bad Windsheim, Germany. He trained as an actor at the Wiesbaden School of Acting (WSfS) in Wiesbaden, graduating in 2006, and during his training he starred in his first production - Urfaust - as Valentin.
Between 2006 and 2010 he worked as an actor in Bern, among other places, and participated in several television productions. This was followed by engagements at the Westfälisches Landestheater in Castrop-Rauxel and the Schauspielhaus Salzburg. During this period he played the role of Faust in Goethe's drama of the same name. Before he joined the ensemble of the German State Theater Timișoara at the beginning of the 2022/23 season, his play Advocatus Diaboli celebrated its world premiere in Salzburg.
At the TGST, Bülent's performances include A.P. Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard as Lopahin Ermolai Alexeevich; Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book as Shere Khan; William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream as Theseus / Oberon; Pascal Rambert's The Theater as Bernd; Andrea Wolfer's Danube Destinies and Swantje Volkmann as Maximilian Emmanuel Fremaut.
He has worked with Volker Schmidt, Răzvan Mazilu, Kristóf Szabó, Pascal Rambert, among others.
