Şerif Erol was born on October 8, 1963 in Izmir, Turkey. He is a Turkish theater actor, screenwriter and voice actor.

After his high school physics The Teacher told his class "You cannot be a physicist", he decided to become a physicist and enrolled in the Physics Department at Boğaziçi University. Realizing that he did not actually want to study physics, he switched to the Economics Department. He played in Boğaziçi University Players for a long time and joined Açık Radyo in 1997.

Due to her desire for theater, she studied theater and gave lectures. During this time, she played plays in the Studio Players Theater in Nişantaşı. In 2008, he continued his play "Fear of Darkness" at Studio Players and in 2014, he played the lead role in the play "My Father's Bodies" at the Krek Theater established at Bilgi University. Since 2000, he has been the scriptwriter of the TV series Bir İstanbul Masalı, Hırsız Polis, Bıçak Sırtı and Koyu Kırmızı. For a period of time, he worked as a voice actor for TRT.