Türkan Şoray

Türkân Şoray (born 28 June 1945) is a Turkish actress, writer and film director. She is known as "Sultan" of the Cinema of Turkey.[1] She started her career in 1960, and won her first award as the most successful actress at the 1st Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival for the movie Acı Hayat.[1] Having appeared in more than 222 films, Şoray has starred in the most feature films for a female actress worldwide.[2][3] On 12 March 2010, Şoray was chosen as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador in Turkey, about which she said: "I think there is nothing that cannot be done with love. If we combine power with love, we can overcome many problems".[4]

Türkân Şoray
Born (1945-06-28) 28 June 1945
Eyüp, Istanbul, Turkey
NationalityTurkish
OccupationFilm actress and director
Years active1960–present
Spouse(s)
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(
m. 1983; div. 1987)
Children1
AwardsGolden Orange for Best Actress (1964, 1968, 1987, 1994)
Golden Boll for Best Actress (1972)
Golden Orange for Life Achievement (1996)
Signature

Together with Hülya Koçyiğit, Filiz Akın and Fatma Girik, she is an icon for a golden age in Turkish cinematography[5] and is regarded as one of the four most important actresses in Turkish cinema. Out of these actresses, Şoray is the only one who also pursued a career in film directing, and directed the movies Dönüş (1972)[6], Azap (1973), Bodrum Hâkimi (1976), Yılanı Öldürseler (1981), and Uzaklarda Arama (2015).

Early life

Şoray was born in Eyüp, Istanbul, as the first child of a family of government officials. Her father was of Circassian descent, while her mother was a migrant from Thessaloniki.[7][8]

While she was studying at Fatih Girls High School[9] as a daughter of one of the landowners in Karagümrük, she visits a set with actor Emel Yıldız who had starred in Panter Emel, and there with the encouragement of Türker İnanoğlu she decides to pursue a career in cinema. Türkân Şoray recounts her memory of starting her cinema career:

"A movie set came to our neighborhood before I entered the cinema industry. They were gonna shoot a set of the movie in our neighborhood. When I saw the actress starring in the movie, I said, 'What a beautiful woman.' That woman was Muhterem Nur. I was looking so confused and a man came up to me and asked 'You want to play in the movie?' I was scared and I just ran home. I learned later that this man was Memduh Ün. At that time I had escaped from the film set, but then the film sets became part of my life.”[10]

Career

While studying at Fatih Kız Lisesi middle school, the homeowner’s daughter of their house in Karagümrük later known as “Panter Emel” and Türkân Şoray went to the same film set. With incentive from Türker İnanoğlu, she made her first steps into Yeşilçam. Instead of Emel Yıldız marking the beginning of Türkan Şoray’s career the 1960s “Köyde Bir Kız Sevdim” co-starred with Baki Tamer. Türkân Şoray recounts the memories of her introduction to cinema as such:

”Before entering cinema a film set arrived to our neighborhood. They were going to film a set of the movie in our neighborhood. When I saw the leading role actress I thought to myself ‘what a beautiful woman’. That woman was Muhterem Nur. As I was looking dumbfounded a man approached me and asked ‘Do you want to act in the movies too?’. I was scared and ran home immediately. I learned later on that, that man was Memduh Ün. Back then I ran from a movie set but later on movie sets became my life”recounts Türkân Şoray

Şoray earned her first Golden Orange award in 1964 for her role as Nermin opposite Ekrem Bora in the movie Acı Hayat which was directed by Metin Erksan.[11] In 1968, Şoray received her second Golden Orange award for her work in the movie Vesikalı Yarim, written by Safa Önal and based on Sait Faik Abasıyanık's "Menekşeli Vadi".[12] At the Istanbul Film Festival, where the renewed copy of the film was republished many years later, Şoray said:

"It is a very miraculous thing for me to have worked with Lütfi Akad, a director whose placed won't be filled easily in Turkish cinema. 'Turkan, you play with your eyes,' he used to say. Lütfi Akad taught me to play with my eyes."[12]

— Türkan Şoray, 2013 (Istanbul Film Festival)


Later career

She went on working with respectable directors in later years. One of them was Atıf Yılmaz, with whom she would work in both dramas and comedies. In the 1970s she also acted in films with a more realistic theme. She also directed four films in those years. Her most applauded films in the 1970s included Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım, Hazal, Sultan, Dönüş and Baraj. In those films she was mostly accompanied by the famous Turkish actor Kadir İnanır.

Awards

She won her first of many awards when she received the best actress prize at the 'Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival' for the film Acı Hayat (Bitter Life).

At the end of the 1960s, she was named one of the four greatest actresses of the Turkish cinema. She was highly applauded for her choices in film and her ability to act in a wide variety of roles. She starred in Vesikalı Yarim (My Licensed Love) for which she was awarded the Best Actress Award for the second time in the Antalya Film Festival.

In the 1980s she began portraying women with problems of female identity; Mine, Rumuz Goncagül (Nickname: Goncagül), On Kadın (Ten Women) etc. She won her third Best Actress Award from the Antalya Film Festival in 1987 with the film Hayallerim, Aşkım ve Sen(My Dreams, My Love and You), in which she portrays three different women, each of whom is a facet of Türkân Şoray herself.

Some of her awards are:

  • Antalya Film Festival Best Actress Award
    • 1964-Acı Hayat
    • 1968-Vesikalı Yarim
    • 1987-Hayallerim, Aşkım ve Sen
    • 1994-Bir Aşk Uğruna
  • Moscow Film Festival Grand Jury Prize
    • 1973-Dönüş (her directorial debut)
  • Tashkent Film Festival Best Actress Award
    • 1978-Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım
  • Bastia Film Festival Best Actress Award
    • 1992-Soğuktu ve Yağmur Çiseliyordu
  • 1996 Istanbul Film Festival, Honorary Cinema Award[13]
  • 1999 Rome Film Festival, Honorary Award

She is also a member of Eurasian Academy.[14][15][16]

Filmography

As an actress
Year Film Role Nots
1960 Aşk Rüzgârı Nil
Güzeller Resmi Geçidi Ayşe
Köyde Bir Kız Sevdim
1961 Otobüs Yolcuları Nevin
Melekler Şahidimdir
Siyah Melek (Zincirler Kırılırken) Nesrin
Hatırla Sevgilim
Utanmaz Adam Sevim
Sevimli Haydut Emine
Kaderin Önüne Geçilmez
Gönülden Gönüle Nazan
Dikenli Gül
Aşk Ve Yumruk
Afacan
Kardeş Uğruna
1962 Biz de Arkadaş mıyız?
Bitter Life Nermin
Lekeli Kadın Türkan
Billur Köşk
Bir Haydut Sevdim
Bardaktaki Adam
Aşk Yarışı Zeynep
Zorlu Damatl Gönül
Allah Seviniz Dedi
Kırmızı Karanfiller
Dikmen Yıldızı
Ümitler Kırılınca Oya
Ne Şeker Şey Canan / Jale Dual role
1963 Adanalı Tayfur
Köroğlu (Dağlar Kralı) Türkan Sultan
Beni Osman Öldürdü Türkan
Acı Aşk
Çapkın Kız Suna
Küçük Beyin Kısmeti Pervin
Sayın Bayan Türkan Bayraktar
İki Kocalı Kadın Sibel
Çalınan Aşk Aysel / Günsel Dual role
Bütün Suçumuz Sevmek
Badem Şekeri Güner Pirinçeken
Genç Kızlar Behlül / Eylül Servan Dual role
Ayşecik Canımın İçi Elif
1964 Adanalı Tayfur Kardeşler Türkan
Dağların Aslanı
Mualla
Fıstık Gibi Maşallah Gülten
Kızgın Delikanlı Avukat Sevil
Anasının Kuzusu Türkan
Macera Kadını
Kader Kapıyı Çaldı Leyla
Gözleri Ömre Bedel Leyla
Gençlik Rüzgarı Fatma Nur Erden
Bücür
Yılların Ardından
Bomba Gibi Kız Leyla
Öksüz Kız
1965 The Bread Seller Woman Ayşe / Zehra / Leyla Triple role
Elveda Sevgilim Türkan Kadiroğlu
Seven Kadın Unutmaz Türkan
Komşunun Tavuğu Türkan
Sürtük Naciye
Siyah Gözler Türkan
Hayatımın Kadını
Garip Bir İzdivaç Zeynep Gökalp
Veda Busesi Türkan
Vahşi Gelin Ayşegül
1966 Altın Küpeler Aylin
Sana Layık Değilim Türkan
Akşam Güneşi Jülide
Çalıkuşu Feride
Kenarın Dilberi Şarkıcı
Meleklerin İntikamı Türkan, Peri
Anaların Günahı
Düğün Gecesi Zeynep
Siyah Gül Gül
Meyhanenin Gülü
Karanfilli Kadın
Günahkar Kadın Türkan
Ferhat ile Şirin
Eli Maşalı
El Kızı
Çamaşırcı Güzeli
1967 Bir Dağ Masalı Lale
Bir Soförun Gizli Defteri
Ayrılsak da Beraberiz Fatma
Ağlayan Kadın Şükran, Leyla
Ana Döndü
Sinekli Bakkal Rabia
Ölümsüz Kadın
Kelepçeli Melek Nevin Erdem
Kara Duvaklı Gelin Perihan
Her Zaman Kalbimdesin
Tapılacak Kadın
1968 Kahveci Güzeli Nermin
Vesikalı Yarim Sabiha
Abbase Sultan Abbase
Ayşem Ayşe
Hapishane Gelini Çengi Naciye
Kadın Severse Leyla
Dünyanın En Güzel Kadını
Aşk Eski Bir Yalan
Artık Sevmeyeceğim Nesrin / Leyla Dual role
Ağla Gözlerim Leyla / Hicran Dual role
Kadın İntikamı
Kadın Değil, Baş Belası Çengi Naciye
1969 Fosforlu Cevriyem Fosforlu Cevriye Necla
Bana Derler Fosforlu
Aşk Mabudesi
Buruk Acı
Kölen Olayım Azize
Sonbahar Rüzgarları
Sana Dönmeyeceğim Leyla Taner
Seninle Ölmek İstiyorum
Ateşli Çingene
Günah Bende mi?
1970 Bülbül Yuvası
Buğulu Gözler
Arım, Balım, Peteğim Zeynep
Kara Gözlüm l Azize
Hayatım Sana Feda
Ağlayan Melek Sabahat
Tatlı Meleğim
Mazi Kalbimde Yaradır
Birleşen Yollar
Merhamet
Herkesin Sevgilisi
Mağrur Kadın
1971 Sevmek Ve Ölmek Zamanı
Gelin Çiçeği
Ateş Parçası
Melek Mi Şeytan Mı? / Asrın Kadını
Mavi Eşarp
Unutulan Kadın
Yedi Kocalı Hürmüz
Güllü
Bir Kadın Kayboldu
Gülüm, Dalım, Çiçeğim
Bir Genç Kızın Romanı
1972 Cemo
Zulüm
Dönüş
Sisli Hatıralar
Vukuat Var
Çile
1973 Mahpus Ümmühan
Güllü Geliyor Güllü Güllü Fındıkoğlu
Azap
Sultan Gelin
Asiye Nasıl Kurtulur?
Yalancı / Çok Yalnızım
Namus Borcu
Gazi Kadın / Nene Hatun Zeynep
Dert Bende
1974 Şenlik Var / Bal Kız
Yüreğimde Yare Var
Çılgınlar
Açlık
1975 Acele Koca Aranıyor
1976 Deprem
Bodrum Hakimi
Devlerin Aşkı
1977 Selvi Boylum, Al Yazmalım Asya
Baraj
Dila Hanım
1978 Sultan
Bir Aşk Masalı
Cevriyem
Ferhat ile Şirin
Tatlı Nigar
1979 Aşk ve Nefret
Hazal
Küskün Çiçek
1980 Gurbetçiler
Tabancamın Sapını Gülle Donatacağım
1981 Yılanı Öldürseler
1982 Seni Kalbime Gömdüm
1983 Metres
Seni Seviyorum
Mine
1984 Bir Sevgi İstiyorum
1985 Körebe
Bir Kadın Bir Hayat
1987 Hayallerim, Aşkım Ve Sen Derya Altınay
Gramofon Avrat Cemile
On Kadın
Rumuz Goncagül Gülsün
1988 Ada
1989 Ölü Bir Deniz
1990 Berdel
Soğuktu Ve Yağmur Çiseliyordu
1991 Menekşe Koyu
1993 Şahmaran
Tatlı Betüş
1994 Bir Aşk Uğruna
1995 Yer Çekimli Aşklar
1996 Gözlerinde Son Gece
1997 Nihavend Mucize
1998 İkinci Bahar (TV series) Hanım
2001 Tatlı Hayat
2002 Gönderilmemiş Mektuplar
2004 Mürüvvetsiz Mürüvvet
2006 Cemile
Ayın Yıldızı Karagümrüklü Karakız
Aşk Beklemez
Hayatımın Kadınısın
2007 Suna
2008 Vurgun
2009 Altın Kızlar
2012 Bir Zamanlar Osmanli: Kiyam Hatice Sultan

As a director
  • Dönüş – 1972
  • Azap – 1973
  • Bodrum Hakimi – 1976
  • Yılanı Öldürseler – 1981 (with Şerif Gören)
  • Uzaklarda Arama – 2015

Music albums
  • Türkan Şoray Söylüyor (2015)

Books
  • "Sinemam ve Ben" (autobiography), Türkan Şoray, NTV Yayınları, 2012, Istanbul.

Books about her
  • "Türkân Şoray, Bir Yıldız Böyle Doğdu" (documentary novel), Agah Özgüç, Göl publications, 1974, Istanbul.
  • "Sümbül Sokağın Tutsak Kadını" (biography), Atilla Dorsay, Remzi Bookstore, 1997, Istanbul. ISBN 975-14-0612-9
  • "Türkân Şoray" (biography), Agah Özgüç, Açıkşehir publications, 2001, Istanbul. ISBN 975-93383-00
  • "Türkân Şoray ile Yüz Yüze", Feridun Andaç, Drahma publications, 2010, Istanbul.
  • "50 Yıllık Aşk - Türkan Şoray", Ercan Akarsu, Esen Books, 2014, Istanbul. ISBN 978-605-4609-40-6
  • "Sinema Emekçisi - Türkan Şoray", Ercan Akarsu, Esen Books, 2015, Istanbul. ISBN 978-605-4609-67-3
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gollark: I don't really... *do* formal English in practice... so I'm not sure.
gollark: I mean, you would probably still say "sir" excessively.
gollark: Apiohazard exposure?
gollark: I wonder why.

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