Tolga was born in London, England, to a Vincentian Mother, Beverley Gunn-Akcayli, and a Turkish Father, Tansal Akacayli. He lived the first 6 years of his life in Istanbul, Turkey, and joined a children's theater and ballet school at age 5. In 1999 Istanbul suffered detrimental earthquakes, killing over 40,000 people during the Izmit Earquake (1999). His mother being from a small island of 100,000 people, was not used to such catastrophe and his parents decided to return to the Caribbean, where they lived back and forth between St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Barbados. Tolga spent most of his early youth organizing plays and filming short stories with his siblings and friends on his father's camcorder.