Suna Selen
Acting
Biography
Suna Selen (born 1 July 1939) is a Turkish actress of theatre, film and television. She has appeared in numerous plays at the Istanbul State Theatre. Selen was born in 1939 in Istanbul. Her father was lawyer Hüsamettin Selen, and her mother, Nimet Selen, was a granddaughter of scholar Ahmed Cevdet Pasha and daughter of Fatma Aliye Topuz. She finished her high school education at the Beşiktaş Atatürk Anadolu Lisesi. During her high school years she also attended the Theatre Department of Beşiktaş Municipal Conservatory. In 1956, she started studying law at the request of her family. At the same time she started to work at the Dormen Theatre. A year later, she left the law school and started her painting education at the Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts. In 1957, she married the painter Cem Kabaağaç and together they had a son. After her marriage, she left the Academy and pitched out her role at the Dormen Theatre. She began her professional career in the theatre season of 1959–60 with Alexandro Casona's Woman Coming at Dawn. During the same season she soon became famous as Nicole Cerusier in Alber Husson's comedy The Pavements in the Sky. In addition to theatre plays, she also starred in a number of motion pictures and series. For her role as the Witch in Pamuk Prenses ve 7 Cüceler she won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 1971 International Antalya Film Festival. She was the recipient of the Best Supporting Actress award at the Ankara International Film Festival for her role as Füruzan in Cazibe Hanımın Gündüz Düşleri. For her role as Elmas in Gönderilmemiş Mektuplar, Selen won the Best Actress award at the International Istanbul Film Festival. Selen's second marriage was to Münir Özkul, from which she has a daughter, named Güner Özkul. In 1974, she divorced Münir Özkul and married play writer Güner Sümer. She later gave birth to her third child and second son Sinan Sümer. In 2016, "because of the dignity she gained in acting profession during her long life as an artist", she became the first recipient of the Lifetime Nadide Küntay Award at the İsmet Küntay Theatre Awards ceremony.
Known For
If Iskender, a 12-year-old archer with extraordinary abilities, does not return from 2020 to the time he lived, the course of history will change.
Tozkoparan: İskender
Our Story / Bizim Hikaye (2017) is a Turkish FOX drama (70 episodes, 2 seasons) starring Hazal Kaya and Burak Deniz, adapted from Shameless. Twenty-year-old Filiz has sacrificed everything — school, dreams, youth — to raise her five younger siblings after their mother abandoned them and their alcoholic father Fikri proves useless. When mysterious Barış enters her life and falls hard for her, Filiz must decide if love has any place in her impossible world.
Our Story
Eight-year-old Öykü is an exceptional little girl, who unlike her peers is very empathetic and perceptive of the world around her. When her aunt, who has been her caregiver since birth, abandons her, Öykü will have to find her father, Demir. Unfortunately Demir, an irresponsible adult and a swindler who grew up in an orphanage, gets arrested the day Öykü comes to find him. Demir is released by the court on the condition that he takes care of his daughter, but Demir does not want to live with Öykü, whom he has just met - Demir and his partner-in-crime Ugur try to get rid of Öykü as they prepare for a big job. Their target, Candan has a seemingly quiet life, which only conceals her painful past. Fate will bring these people together, but none know that Öykü has a secret she cannot tell anyone.
My Little Girl
The lives of women in prison, as well as the adventures of their relatives who came to visit and the aftermath of those who went out.
Parmaklıklar Ardında
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Doktorlar
Zeynep relatives come to the land of Fikriye and win the love of the girls with purity. Ati, Zafer and Umutcan decide to keep the house overlooking the Girls Dorm. Men are living inside while girls are strolling in the yard. Insurances and electricity are cut off during the downturn. The plumber Ozgur, who is admired by all the girls, is called to dorm.
Girls Dormitory
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Hayat Devam Ediyor
Events occurred in Turkey in late seventies and early eighties.
The Rose and the Thorn
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Kayıp Prenses
Iffet lives in a low income neighbourhood of Istanbul with her sister and father under the strict rules of her father. She can not even go visit her aunt since she is not allowed to leave home without permission. She nevethless falls in love with Cemil…
İffet
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Kış Masalı
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Sensiz Yaşayamam
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Aşkım Aşkım
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Bugünün Saraylısı
Ercüment is a showman but every single time he performs, it ends up being a disaster. After a while of being in between jobs, he finds himself as a tour guide due to his father's illness and he has to deal with senior people that are taking the tour just so they can commit suicide together.
Tour Guide
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Kadim Dostum
Seven friends living in the same neighborhood with different aims form a gang to rob gas stations in pursuit of their shared desire for money. The film serves as a critique of the socio-economic situation of Türkiye and the approach to the "American Dream" in the period of time before May 27th.
Beyond the Nights
Amidst the journalism, Young Turk partisanship, and other events that ravaged the country before the Second Constitutional Era, Adnan, a law student living with his mother in Aksaray, becomes a teacher at a pasha's mansion to teach the pasha's daughter Süheyla through the mediation of a friend. Despite his pro-freedom ideas, Adnan wins the pasha's favor with his morality and honesty. While he intends to marry Süheyla, he meets Belkıs Hanım, the daughter of another pasha known for his corruption and disliked by the people, but who is married to perhaps the only beardless, mustache-less officer in the army. known for corruption and disliked by the people, but married to perhaps the only beardless officer in the army. Confused, Adnan abandons the idea of marrying Süheyla. However, he is only a teacher to Belkıs. Based on the novel of the same name by Mithat Cemal Kuntay.
Üç İstanbul
Two Turkish anti-terrorist agents are sent to New York City on a mission to find and bring back the dangerous Islamic leader codenamed "Dajjal", believed to be hiding in there. Working with the FBI and NYPD, the agents orchestrate the arrest of Hadji Gumus, a well-respected Muslim scholar and family man who years before fled to the United States after being released from a Turkish prison, where he served time for murder. This tale love, friendship, peace and prejudices, takes us on a journey seeking to answer the question of whether innocence or guilt even matters to one who lusts for vengeance.
Five Minarets in New York
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