Hakan Ural was born on January 2, 1968 in Istanbul. His mother is Ceyhan Cem and his father is singer Selçuk Ural. His father did not accept that he had a child until the age of 16, but when he turned 17, he was taken into his father's custody. He grew up in his grandmother's house in Fındıkzade. During his childhood, he shined shoes, worked as an electrician and sold water. At the age of 16, she started modeling. Then she started to receive offers from Yeşilçam one after another. But because of his schooling, he went to America. At the age of 19, he married Sibel Can and had two children. Hakan Ural, who first became known in 1986 with the movie Blue Voyage in which he starred with Banu Alkan, played leading roles with many names such as Serpil Çakmaklı, Harika Avcı and Oya Aydoğan in 1987. He worked as a real estate agent during his marriage to Sibel Can.

Hakan Ural, who was sentenced to 10 months in prison in 1999 for obtaining a fake rotten report, benefited from the Parole Law No. 3713 and was released after serving 2/5 of his sentence and enlisted in the army. He did his recruit training in Hatay and spent the remaining months as a soldier in Van.

Between 2008 and 2009, he starred in the TV series İpsiz Recep, starring Kadir İnanır, which was broadcast on TRT 1, together with Burcu Kara, Nihat Nikerel and Mesut Akusta.

In 2009, he starred in the movie "Kolpaçino: A City Legend" with Aydemir Akbaş, Şafak Sezer and Ali Sürmeli.

In 2010, he became the general coordinator of the hotels owned by Galip Öztürk, the owner of Metro Group.

In 2012, he starred in the series "Purgatory Time" with Saruhan Hünel, Selin Ortaçlı, Sermin Hürmeriç, Kürşat Başar, Burak Sergen.

In 2014, he starred in the movie Codename: K.O.Z., which tells the life of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Cem Kurtoglu played Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the movie and actors such as Hazım Körmükçü, Tolga Karel, Günay Musayeva, Turgay Tanülkü, Orhan Kılıç, Hakan Ural, Yılmaz Gruda took part in the movie.

In 2016, he played the character of Oğuz Doğu in the series Kehribar with Gürkan Uygun and Ayça Varlıer.

Today, he has been commenting together with Nur Tuğba Algül in the morning program called What's Happening in Life, which has been broadcast on Kanal D since 2019.