Çolpan İlhan (8 August 1936 – 25 July 2014) was a Turkish cinema and theatre actress. In 1998 she was awarded the title of State Artist of Turkey. She acted in more than 300 films and theater plays.

Biography

She was the sister of famous poet and writer Attila İlhan, and the wife of Sadri Alışık, one of the most famous actors of the cinema of Turkey, with whom she stayed married from 1959 until his death in 1995. They had one child, Kerem Alışık, who is also an actor.

She died of a heart attack on July 25, 2014, at her home in Istanbul. She rests besides her husband at the Zincirlikuyu Cemetery, in Istanbul.