Türkan Şoray

Türkan Şoray

Birth : 1945-06-28, Istanbul, Turkey

History

Türkan Şoray (born 28 June 1945) is a Turkish actress, writer and film director. She is known as "Sultan" of the Cinema of Turkey. Having appeared in more than 222 films, Şoray has starred in the most feature films for a female actress worldwide. 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 (Bitter Life). 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".

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Movies

Innocence of Memories: Orhan Pamuk's Museum & Istanbul
Actress
Orhan Pamuk – Turkey’s Nobel laureate for Literature – opens a museum in Istanbul. A museum that’s a fiction: its objects trace a tale of doomed love in '70s Istanbul. The film takes a tour of the objects as the starting point for a trip through images, landscapes and the chemistry of the city. A film about Istanbul, love, memory and loss.
Uzaklarda Arama
Director
Hicran Sokağı
A neighborhood story with loves and fights.
Suna
Suna
Hayatımın Kadınısın
Asuman Karaca
Turkan Soray(46 years on silver screen) and Ugur Yucel(21 years on silver screen) are starring at this conservative work of cinema. Yucel performs an admirer of a veteran stage singer. Back in his puppy hood, he used to go to her stage concerts when she was popular. On a lonely day at his sea front restaurant, he sees her for the first time since times immemorial. Carried away by her beauty, he pursues her closely for a couple months gathering her information. He finds out that she has retired from the boards, separated from her husband and has remarried. At the apartment where she and her second husband lives, he detects a vacancy for a rental unit. Then he moves in.
Aşk Beklemez
Ayın Yıldızı
Karagümrüklü Karakız
Mürüvvetsiz Mürüvvet
Mürüvvet
Gönderilmemiş Mektuplar
Nihavend Mucize
Suzan
Directed by Atif Yilmaz.
Yer Çekimli Aşklar: Kazandibi Tavukgöğsü
Şahmaran
Şahmaran
Yusuf leads a poor but peaceful life with his grandfather running coffee on the Golden Horn. Dedesin told him that the sultan’s sultan was influenced by the story of Şahmaran. Dusesi is also the old treasure hunter, Yusuf’s dream world has developed quite a bit.
Bir Aşk Uğruna
Selma
It Was Cold and Raining
Leyla
Leyla is a Turkish Classical Music artist. The death of Cemal, a conductor, is a great devastation for Leyla. She started to talk with Cemal Bey's relatives in order to better understand his feelings and thoughts.
Menekşe Koyu
Neriman
Berdel
Hanim
Family relations begins to get rough when father of the house desperately insists to have a boy and his first wife gives birth to their forth daughter.
A Dead Sea
Yüksel
A retired teacher and a very succesful female banker meets at a holiday resort incidentally. The woman is sick and tired of her workload/housework and his husband while the man has escaped from his monotonous lifestyle. He is up to settle in a village nearby where he thinks he will live his dream in solitude. While looking for a place to rent, they get close and fall in love with each other. But their lifestyles and characters are quite different.
Ada
Eser
Eser, who wants to talk to her husband while making a decision about the future of her daughter, decides to go to the island for this. On this occasion, a great reckoning begins between the couple, who come together again years later.
My Dreams, My Love, and You
Derya Altınay
Coşkun, who grew up in an orphanage, has been in love with the famous actress Derya Altınay since he was a little boy, and his dream is to write a movie script for her. He is so in love with her that he believes he is living with two of the movie characters she played in her old movies. However, these two old characters do not want him to write an original script for Derya Altınay because he will forget about them when a new character is created. So they start an emotional battle to stop him from writing his script.
Ten Women
The story of nine independent women from various parts of society who committed various crimes.
Rumuz Goncagül
Wife as Gramophone
Cemile
In the 1930s in Konya, Turkey, the famous belly dancer Cemile dreams of going to the big city. Murat falls in love with her.
Bir Kadın Bir Hayat
Nuran
Learning that her husband is cheating on her with a woman who is her family friend, Nuran starts to struggle to save her marriage even though she is very upset.
Blind Man's Bluff
Meral
Meral is a divorced mother living with her six-year-old daughter Elif. One day, Elif disappears. Despite all efforts to search for her, she in not found. Meral’s former husband and lawyer Turgay take part in the search. During their investigation, Meral and Turgay become clo ser. A love relationship starts between these two loners.
Bir Sevgi İstiyorum
I Love You
Selma / Aygül
As a coincidence, Murat founds his ex-love Selma after several years in his town. He would like to make up and regain her trust and love. However Selma already have a different life style.
Metres
Mine
Mine
Mine is married to station chief Cemil; at the same time, the entire town attracts the attention of men is a beautiful woman. Mine, exposed to the jealous gaze of the women around her, feels alone and unhappy in her marital life. When Perihan's brother Ilhan, the only friend, comes to town, everything changes. The town soon starts to gossip about Ilhan and Mine, who are soon friendly.
To Crush The Serpent
Esme
Esme, the most beautiful of the village she lives in, is in love with Abbas, the valiant young man of the village, but she was married to Halim, the village lord.
To Crush The Serpent
Screenplay
Esme, the most beautiful of the village she lives in, is in love with Abbas, the valiant young man of the village, but she was married to Halim, the village lord.
To Crush The Serpent
Director
Esme, the most beautiful of the village she lives in, is in love with Abbas, the valiant young man of the village, but she was married to Halim, the village lord.
Resentful Flower
Zeynep
The film tells the story of insurance investigator Ahmet, who went to Çeşme to investigate a suspicious death. Industrialist and Banker İskender Bey dies in a collision accident while on holiday in Çeşme. The insurance company assigns Inspector Ahmet to investigate the incident, on suspicion that it may be murder. Ahmet is a heart patient. His doctor tells Ahmet that he has only one month to live unless a miracle occurs. Ahmet feels that he is getting closer to death day by day. Ahmet, Zeynep met with a beloved physician in Çeşme. But Zeynep's love is not enough to keep him alive.
Hazal
Hazal
The son of a wealthy, respected family seeks the hand of Hazal; unexpectedly, soon after her marriage, her husband dies. According to custom, as the deceased family had paid dowry for Hazal, she must marry the next male sibling—which in this case, happens to be an 11-year old boy.
Aşk ve Nefret
Любовь моя, печаль моя
Мехмен Бану
Sultan
Sultan
A Portrayal of a young depressed Turkish widow in the slums whose infinite dignity alone looks after her orphan kids is depicted by the son of the town sheriff, who is in love with her.
Lyubov moya, pechal moya
Mehmene Banu
Cevriyem
Cevriye
Sweet Nigar
Tatli Nigar
Easily deceived by her charming affectation, a boisterous country man kidnaps an adventurous damsel to a far off land hoping soon she will come to her senses with him. She lacks the courage to reject his straightforward endearment.
The Girl with the Red Scarf
Asya
Asya and İlyas's once-legendary love affair is now threatened by jealousy, alcohol and deception. Ilyas leaves Asya because of his weak character and problems at work. After that, Asya takes their son and go away without knowing where she is heading, until a familiar hand reaches her to help selflessly.
Madam Dilâ
Dila Hanım
Madam Dila is the grieving widow of a recently deceased Ağa (feudal landowner) who is hell-bent on wreaking revenge on Rıza, the man who murdered her husband. She sends her men to kill him and then ironically, saves his life because she doesn’t know it’s him.
Baraj
Aysel
Nazim, a foreman working on a dam construction, falls in love with Aysel, the most beautiful girl of the local brothel. Too shy to identify himself, Nazim sends her love letters, signing as Orhan, one of his employees - and a man with not many scruples... When Aysel arrives on the construction site, the deception does not last long. It all ends in a happy marriage. Only, it's not the end yet.
The Earthquake
Directed by Serif Gören.
The Judge of Bodrum
Director
Newly appointed judge of a small ashore town of Bodrum falls in love with the handsome big shot of the town who is not as innocent as the residents think him of.
The Judge of Bodrum
Nevin
Newly appointed judge of a small ashore town of Bodrum falls in love with the handsome big shot of the town who is not as innocent as the residents think him of.
Love of Giant
Türkan
Reunion of two former lovers brings the end to the society they are part of through hate through revenge and through bloodshed, especially when the lovers were obliged to stand against their associates and families.
İnce Memed Vuruldu
Acele Koca Aranıyor
Açlık
Meryem
Çılgınlar
The film takes on a gang’s attempt to rob a businessman. Murat Necdet, Cemil, and Selma are the members of a gang of thieves. Their current target is Orhan İnan, a wealthy businessman. They devise a plan to have Selma assaulted just as Orhan is passing by ; Orhan saves her and takes her home. But Selma loses her memory, remembering nothing about her past. Their plan is to have Orhan become obsessed with Selma’s beauty and steal his fortune. There are, however, certain things to which the thieves are oblivious. This scheme, which started as a game for the heist, is no longer practicable.
Bal Kız: Şenlik Var
Zelis
Yüreğimde Yare Var
Nurten
A young man who grew up with an orphan girl and realizes that one day he is in love with her, but he cannot express his love. The young girl also loves her, but she can't even say it to herself.
Asiye Nasıl Kurtulur?
Asiye
Torment
Director
While Elif is pregnant, she receives a blow to her stomach, and the baby remains paralyzed because the baby's food cord is damaged. When she cannot heal her baby in the village, she comes to Istanbul and tries to get to know the city and the people in it.
Torment
Elif
While Elif is pregnant, she receives a blow to her stomach, and the baby remains paralyzed because the baby's food cord is damaged. When she cannot heal her baby in the village, she comes to Istanbul and tries to get to know the city and the people in it.
The Prisoner
Ümmühan
This romantic melodrama tells the sad story of a platonic love between Ümmühan and Selman.
Gazi Kadın
Zeynep
With the start of the Russo-Turkish War, the Russian Army attacks Erzurum. Zeynep sets out to find her husband when there are rumors that her husband has been martyred. However, a big surprise awaits her there.
Namus Borcu
Gurbet
Dert Bende
The love lives of two sisters who are in love with the same man are intertwined. And when one of them decisively decides to get married, things get really complicated.
Yalancı
Zeynep
Sultan Gelin
Güllü Geliyor Güllü
Güllü
Güllü and the goddess Taka Nuri come to Istanbul to avenge a bloodshed. Güllü is a Black Sea girl. Nasi is a rich young man who grew up in the same village as Güllü. Nuri is given a gun in his circumcision wedding. The accidental bullet hits a relative of Güllü and thus starts a blood feud.
Cemo
Cemo
Sisli Hatıralar
Dürrin Arbel
The movie tells about the experiences of three men who are in love with the same woman. Businessman Atıf and his partner Timur are in love with the famous actress Dürrin Arbel. Two friends fight all the time to get Dürrin. However, Dürrin does not show interest in either Attribution or Timur. One day Atıf introduces his friend Hakan, who is a musician, to Dürrin. Dürrin and Hakan fall in love with each other. After a while, Atıf learns the relationship between Hakan and Dürrin. He tries to get rid of Timur before he can get Dürrin. Later, Timur will try to separate Hakan and Dürrin.
Çile
Elif
Kenan, who is interested in hunting, is seriously injured in an accident while going to the forest one day. Elif, who is a nurse in a hospital, finds Kenan by chance and takes him to the hospital.
Vukuat Var
Zulüm
Ayla
The Return
Director
Gülcan and her husband İbrahim dream of a happy future together in their village. However, they are subjected to the cruelty of the Agha, the local landowner who lords over the entire village. İbrahim is fed up and moves to Germany to find work. On the other hand, Gülcan has to deal with Agha's evils alone.
The Return
Gülcan
Gülcan and her husband İbrahim dream of a happy future together in their village. However, they are subjected to the cruelty of the Agha, the local landowner who lords over the entire village. İbrahim is fed up and moves to Germany to find work. On the other hand, Gülcan has to deal with Agha's evils alone.
Ateş Parçası
Azize is a poor girl lives in Istanbul and works for thatre...
Sevmek ve Ölmek Zamanı
Gülüm, Dalım, Çiçeğim
Singer Saziye, who fell in love with Orhan, her university teacher, has not completely forgotten the young man, even though it has been years since she left Orhan. Saziye's path crosses with Orhan again.
Mavi Eşarp
A Woman Vanished
Selma
Directed by Safa Önal.
Hürmüz with Seven Husbands
Hürmüz
Directed by Atif Yilmaz.
Bir Genç Kızın Romanı
The Forgotten Woman
Zeynep / Hilda
Zeynep, a member of a gang of professional thieves, is tasked with seducing the chosen victims. The new victim of the group is Kenan Hanoglu, a composer.
Angel or Devil?
Nesrin
A young bride wows to take revenge on her father's killers.
Güllü
Gelin Çiçeği
Zehra, Arzu
Buğulu Gözler
Mazi Kalbimde Yaradır
Turkan is tormented by thoughts of her turbulent family past that has been blighted by family rivalries and intrigues.
Arım Balım Peteğim
Zeynep
A jealous husband makes a deal with Ahmet, a private detective, to catch his cheating wife. The person with whom the man's wife is secretly together is Harun. However, nothing goes as expected and Ahmet's daughter Zeynep falls in love with Harun.
Crossroads
Feyza
The paths of Feyza and Bilal, who are from different worlds, cross again after years.
Hayatim Sana Feda
Directed by Muzaffer Aslan.
Mağrur Kadın
Ağlayan Melek
Sabahat
Merhamet
My Sweet Angel
Leyla
An ugly duckling transformation of a secretary who is madly in love with his boss and wants to take revenge for her wounded heart
Bülbül Yuvası
Nerime
Story of a business man who is falling love with his relative girl and violinists man who has great love for this girl.
Herkesin Sevgilisi
Zeynep
Kara Gözlüm
Azize
Azize, who sells fish with her father, is discovered by a bar owner with her beautiful voice. She becomes a famous singer in a short time with the anonymous compositions and even gets a movie offer from Hollywood. However, nothing goes as planned for Azize. She is forced to choose between her love and her dreams.
Autumn Winds
Nalan
Nalan, who had an accident while going to meet with Kemal, is injured after the accident.
I Want to Die With You
Selma
The woman, whose every request is fulfilled by her husband but still fails to be happy, starts to get away from everything by giving herself to alcohol.
Fosforlu Cevriyem
Necla
The story of a young woman wanted for a crime she didn't commit.
Sana Dönmeyeceğim
Leyla Taner
Günah Bende mi?
Müvin
Aşk Mabudesi
Leyla
A famous novel writer discovers a starlet from the slums with a burning desire to become a singer.
Kölen Olayım
Azize
Buruk Acı
Writer
Escaping from home, Ülker meets and marries a blind composer in the hotel where she is staying, but suffering does not leave Ülker in her new life.
Buruk Acı
Ülker Demirel
Escaping from home, Ülker meets and marries a blind composer in the hotel where she is staying, but suffering does not leave Ülker in her new life.
Bana Derler Fosforlu
Fosforlu
The abandoned Fosforlu sing and dance in the streets to survive. She run into the once famous singer Kemal, who now is blind and have lost his memory. The two start to perform together. A surgeon enjoying their act offers to help Kemal out of his misery.
Hot Gypsy
Gelincik
There is a tense love between Gelincik and Ali, who grow up together. Ali, who can't stand the coming and going of Gelincik, is about to leave the cergi, and he falls into prison because of Gelincik's slander.
Ağla Gözlerim
Leyla
Leyla, who has no choice but to accept her father's offer, tries to keep her pregnancy secret, but the truth eventually comes to light.
The Most Beautiful Woman in the World
A beautiful and talented young girl could not find peace in the places where she worked. At this time, she also falls in love with a very rich and famous shipowner. But she can not seize an opportunity to show himself
Abbase Sultan
Abbase
The story of Abbase Sultan, who ruled the country in the Abbasid Caliph.
Kahveci Güzeli
Nermin
Kadın İntikamı
Handan
Ayşem
Ayşe
The Jail Bride
Çengi Naciye
Murat has to marry someone if he is to collect his inheritance. So his lawyer decides to marry him to an inmate on death row. Naciye, who is sentenced to death, accepts the marriage proposal. They perform the wedding ceremony at the prison. But things don’t go as planned.
Aşk Eski Bir Yalan
Handan
Artık Sevmeyeceğim
Kadın Severse
Leyla
My Prostitute Love
Sabiha
Halil goes to a club with his friends and meets Sabiha, a prostitute, and they fall in love. Two lovers want to escape their past and live together. However, Sabiha knows little about Halil's life, and she has to face some facts.
Tapılacak Kadın
Mother
Döndü
Sevket is killed while he escaping blood vengeance. After that, Döndü must look after her children in despite of poverty and blood vengeance.
Sinekli Bakkal
Rabia
Ölümsüz Kadın
Kelepçeli Melek
Nevin Erdem
Her Zaman Kalbimdesin
Fatma
Ağlayan Kadın
Şükran, Leyla
Ayrılsak da Beraberiz
Fatma
Fatma, a singer, meets Harun, the owner of a rich and famous record company, and is on the verge of becoming a famous singer with his support. Will Fatma, who married Harun, be able to forget her real love?
Bir Dağ Masalı
Lale
The Wedding Night
A woman trying to take revenge on her husband who left her.
Karanfilli Kadın
Kenarın Dilberi
Virago
Nermin
Nermin, who meets Ömer after many years, introduces herself as a different person in order to get closer to the young man.
Anaların Günahı
Sevim
Altın Küpeler
Aylin
Meyhanenin Gülü
Gül
Siyah Gül
Gül
Çamaşırcı Güzeli
The Woman Of My Life
The Sinful Woman
Türkan
The story of two sisters who fall in love with the same man.
El Kızı
Nazan
The Evening Sun
Jülide
Nazmi, who was an officer in the military, was injured in the Korean War and retired. He wants to spend the rest of his life on a farm away from city life and settles with his wife on the farm. But the arrival of Jülide to the farm changes all the balances.
Firecrest
Feride
An adaptation of Reşat Nuri Güntekin’s 1922 novel, about the destiny of heartbroken young Turkish woman who becomes a teacher in Anatolia.
Siyah Gözler
Türkan
Vahşi Gelin
Ayşegül
I’m Not Worthy of You
Türkan
Osman falls in love with Türkan, the daughter of a wealthy family, but he cannot open his feelings to the young woman. During Osman's military service, his brother Ekrem becomes lovers with Türkan and gets engaged. Although Türkan really loves Ekrem, his plans are completely different.
Komşunun Tavuğu
Türkan
The Bread Seller Woman
Based on Xavier de Montépin's story, the film tells the story of a widow wrongly accused of arson.
A Strange Wedding
Zeynep Gökalp
Haluk, who is trying to take revenge on his fiancee Handan, who cheated on him, proposes to Zeynep on a contractual basis. Handan, who learns that Haluk and Zeynep got married, resorts to various games to separate the two.
Elveda Sevgilim
Türkan Kadiroğlu
Farewell Kisses
The wedding day of Ekrem, a young man, becomes the worst day of his life. Ekrem loses his wife in a traffic accident. Ekrem, who suffers a great trauma due to the loss of his wife moves away. His mother one day encounters a woman named Türkan, who resembles Ekrem's dead wife. Ekrem's mother tries to persuade Türkan to marry her son. Although the young woman consents to this marriage, she finds Ekrem quite ugly. Deciding to put his life on track, Ekrem goes abroad and gets rid of the scar on his face by surgery. When he returns home, he plans to play a game he will not forget for Türkan, who still finds him ugly.
Seven Kadın Unutmaz
Türkan
Türkan, a young woman, works as a secretary in a bank. Kemal works alongside his wealthy uncle. There is a big secret that Kemal kept from Türkan.
Sürtük
naciye
Naciye sings on the streets to live and one day she is discovered by a famous casino owner. Then Naciye falls into love with her piano teacher Cuneyt. Casino owner Ekrem starts to make a trouble.
Anasının Kuzusu
Adanalı Tayfur Kardeşler
Türkan
Dağlar Aslanı Ali Efe
Gözleri Ömre Bedel
Leyla Arseren
A brooding composer longs for his late wife, oblivious to the fact that mysteriously she is still alive since she has restarted her life as an alcoholic drifter. After a late night concert the two come across each other.
Bomba Gibi Kız
Kader Kapıyı Çaldı
Leyla
Fıstık Gibi Maşallah
Gülten
The Angry Young Man
Avukat Sevil
Murat, who started a legal battle against his relatives with lawyer Sevil, begins to question his life in this process.
Macera Kadını
Öksüz Kız
Bücür
Mualla
Mualla
After Years
Berna Ekmekçigil
Berna, who lost her parents in a traffic accident on a stormy night, is traumatized. Doctors tell Berna, who is struggling to cope with the pain of losing her family, that a change of air will be good.
Gençlik Rüzgarı
Fatma Nur (Fato)
Sayın Bayan
Türkan
Çalınan Aşk
Aysel / Günsel
The two young people, who started to get to know each other, decide to meet face to face after long letters. The woman sends her sister instead of herself.
İki Kocalı Kadın
Sibel
Osman Killed Me
Türkan
After the death of a wealhty man, family members are gather in the mansion to receive the hereditary share. The police enters the circuit after some mysterious deaths in the mansion.
Badem Şekeri
Güner Pirinçeken
Young people who come together for revenge begin to be affected by each other. Young people resort to all sorts of ways to overcome their father's hostility.
Çapkın Kız
Suna
Ayşecik Canımın İçi
Young Girls
Eylül
İskender is a young actor. He cannot turn down the request of an old friend of his who is the school’s manager and starts working there as an elocutionist. All his students are impressed by him; they bet on who will be able to make İskender fall in love with her.
Acı Aşk
Bütün Suçumuz Sevmek
Türkan
Dağlar Kralı
Türkan Sultan
Küçük Beyin Kısmeti
Pervin
Aşk Yarışı
Zeynep
Zorlu Damat
Gönül
Ne Şeker Şey
Zeynel Abidin'in Büyük Kızı
Billur Köşk
Bir Haydut Hikayesi
Biz de Arkadaş mıyız?
Nihal
Dikmen Yıldızı
Kırmızı Karanfiller
Türkan
Ümitler Kırılınca
Oya
Bardaktaki Adam
Lekeli Kadın
Türkan Güneş
Allah Seviniz Dedi
Bitter Life
Nermin
A social melodrama that tells the love story of a young girl who works at a high society hair salon as a manicurist and a young man who works at a shipyard as a welder.
The Bus Passengers
Nevin
An example of social realism in Turkish cinema, the story follows a bus driver who takes side of the poor who has been exploited by a rich man with the promise of making new apartments for them.
Sevimli Haydut
Emine
Afacan
Aşk ve Yumruk
Tülin
Dikenli Gül
Gül
Gönülden Gönüle
Nazan
Hatırla Sevgilim
Kardeş Uğruna
Siyah Melek
Nesrin
Kaderin Önüne Geçilmez
Utanmaz Adam
Sevim
Melekler Şahidimdir
Zeynep
The film, based on a Jean Stelli sroty, tells the adventures of a lieutenant of marines and the mystery of the ship explosion caused by a spy network.
Aşk Rüzgarı
Nil
Güzeller Resmi Geçidi
Köyde Bir Kız Sevdim