Turkan soray biography

If you held a street survey, some Turkish people wouldn't even know the names of many current celebrities - but you'd find far fewer who didn't know Türkan Şoray, perhaps the most famous Turkish movie actress ever who has made more than 200 films since the early 1960s.

Şoray is the so-called sultan of Turkish cinema.

The name, "Sultan" or sometimes "Türkan Sultan" was given to her by the people and not by the mass media after the film "Sultan Gelin" (Sultan Bride) in which she played a young woman who was the victim of bad traditions.

She has generally played the role of the oppressed but resistant female character.

Though most of her films were romantic comedies, melodramas or situational comedies, the films through which she gained the love of the people were socially conscious dramas, including "Acı Hayat" (Bitter Life, 1962), "Çalıkuşu" (The Wren, 1966), "Vesikalı Yarim" (My Prostitute Love, 1968) "Sultan Gelin" (Sultan Bride, 1973) a