Türkan Şoray

Türkan Şoray (born 28 June 1945) is a Turkish film actress.

Biography

Türkan Şoray was born to a government official father, Halit Şoray (who is of Circassian descent) and her mother, Meliha Şoray, a housewife. She has one younger sister Nazan, who is also an actress in her own right but is not as famous as Türkan. After the birth of her younger sister, Türkan's parents divorced and her mother was granted custody of the children. Türkan Şoray graduated from Fatih Kız Lisesi (Fatih Girls' High School). Whilst living in a rented apartment in the Karagümrük neighborhood of the Fatih district in Istanbul with her mother and sister, she would not know that their landlords would be her link to stardom. The landlords were the parents of one of the first actresses of Turkish cinema, Emel Yıldız and it is with her that Türkan first set foot on a film set. After this, Türkan was ever closer to a contract with one of Turkey's top film studios in Yeşilçam.

Career

Debut

She made her film debut in 1960 at just 15 years old with the film Aşk Rüzgarı (The Wind of Love). After the movie's success Türkan started to be advised by a Yeşilçam screenwriter, film director and producer Türker İnanoğlu. It is he, who would in the same year, sack Türkan's close friend Emel Yıldız in order to give his new prodigy the leading role in the studio's upcoming movie Köyde Bir Kız Sevdim (Falling in Love with a Girl in the Village).

Türkan

Türkan (also, Turkyany, Tyurkend, Tyurkyan, and Tyurkyany) is a settlement and municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 10,108. It means beautiful in Turkish.

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Türkan (disambiguation)

Türkan is a settlement and municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Türkan may also refer to:

People with the given name

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