Suna Selen
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.
İffet
as İffet's auntIffet lives in a low income neighbourhood of Istanbul with her sister and father under the...
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Miracles Of Love
as uncreditedDuring the 1960s, a disabled man finds himself in an arranged marriage to the most beautiful...
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Fake Gangster
as Gazino ŞarkıcısıKemal, unaware that his father is a mafia boss, sells cotton candy at train stations. After his...
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Beyaz Melek
as MizginBeyaz Melek’ filmi; bir aşkın öyküsüdür.Bu aşk öyküsü, iki insanın birbirine duyduğu aşk değil,...
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Don't Look Too Far
as SamimeAn eternal landscape from the Yesilcam.
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Piano Piano Kid
as SıdıkaIn 1940's Turkey, the world in the eyes of a child.
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Büyü
as uncreditedA group of archeologists are determined to make digs on a ghost town to find an old book,...
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Aysecik in the Land of the Magic Dwarfs
as Kötü Cadi (Wicked Witch of the South)A young girl named Aysecik lives on her parents' farm, when an animated tornado carries her and...
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Ara
as GrandmaAra is the story of four people and an empty house. These people are stuck between their past...
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After the Revolution
as uncreditedWhat if a revolution will happen in Turkey? "After Revolution" is discussing ordinary, daily...
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Once a Year
as ZeynepA young hapless couple's devotion for each other is tested through harsh times of war as they...
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Daydreams of Miss Cazibe
as FüruzanCazibe is a woman in her late thirties, who has never got married or had a relationship with a...
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Yusuf and Kenan
as LaleWhen their father is killed in a blood feud, Yusuf and Kenan, two shepherd boys, flee to...
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Hınç
as ElifThe story of a policeman whose life was ruined by an accident
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Somuncu Baba: Askin Sirri
as uncreditedBased on a real life story of sufi dervish Somuncu Baba, who lived in Aksaray in Turkey.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
as La strega, seconda reginaA beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide...
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Yeni Başlayanlar İçin Hayatta Kalma Sanatı
as BabaanneA twenty years old boy that lost his mother, father and sister in a traffic accident takes a...
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The Impeccables
as SelmaTwo sisters in their early thirties find themselves isolated in the Aegean summer cottage of...
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Hürmüz with Seven Husbands
as Deli HavvaHurmuz is a beautiful woman, her husband Ömer is in prison and she's in love with him. She...
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İki Ruhlu Kadın
as uncreditedSelma, a wealthy woman, is taken to hospital following what looks like a car breakdown on the...
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The Letter
as uncreditedA man researches the death of his political activist father while in police custody.
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A Nation Awakens
as uncreditedErtem Egilmez's period drama about National Forces in the Turkish War of Independence.
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Zincirbozan
as Rahşan EcevitThe political drama "Zincirbozan" was written by journalist Avni Özgürel, and depicted the...
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Waiting for the Clouds
as SelmaA member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her youth....
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Sarı Tebessüm
as uncreditedEda (Şahika Tekand) is the owner of a picture gallery. Her husband, Idris (Levent Özdilek), who...
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Esir Hayat
as KamerThe film tells the story of Aydın and Ayşe, who crossed the roads in Cyprus, for their love....
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Beyond the Nights
as SemaA group of young man from suburban, unite and make some trouble to achieve their different purposes.
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The Horse
as Woman in the villaA father and son come to grips with external hardships and their own human frailties as they...
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Basilisk
as uncreditedYusuf leads a poor but peaceful life with his grandfather running coffee on the Golden Horn....
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Yüreğimde Yare Var
as ŞazimentA young man who grew up with an orphan girl and realizes that one day he is in love with her,...
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MC Dandik
as KaradulGrowing up as an orphan and a child without parents, Dandik has faced various problems...
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The Charming Bandit
as uncreditedThe story of two siblings who were thrown in different directions at a young age.
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The Poet
as uncreditedAhmet Dirimoğlu, who writes novels on psychology, goes to his house in the forest to write his...
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Can Kurban
as uncreditedIt is the story of a woman who has no children and a young man who he thinks is a son.
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My Little Girl
as Müfide AdıgüzelEight-year-old Öykü is an exceptional little girl, who unlike her peers is very empathetic and...
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Tozkoparan: İskender
as MakbuleIf Iskender, a 12-year-old archer with extraordinary abilities, does not return from 2020 to the...
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Girls Dormitory
as uncreditedZeynep relatives come to the land of Fikriye and win the love of the girls with purity. Ati,...
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Parmaklıklar Ardında
as Gülten'in AnnesiThe lives of women in prison, as well as the adventures of their relatives who came to visit and...
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The Rose and the Thorn
as uncreditedEvents occurred in Turkey in late seventies and early eighties.
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