Türkan Şoray (born 28 June 1945) is a Turkish film actress.

Biography

Türkan Şoray was born to a government official father, Halit Şoray (who is of Circassian descent) and her mother, Meliha Şoray, a housewife. She has one younger sister Nazan, who is also an actress in her own right but is not as famous as Türkan. After the birth of her younger sister, Türkan's parents divorced and her mother was granted custody of the children. Türkan Şoray graduated from Fatih Kız Lisesi (Fatih Girls' High School). Whilst living in a rented apartment in the Karagümrük neighborhood of the Fatih district in Istanbul with her mother and sister, she would not know that their landlords would be her link to stardom. The landlords were the parents of one of the first actresses of Turkish cinema, Emel Yıldız and it is with her that Türkan first set foot on a film set. After this, Türkan was ever closer to a contract with one of Turkey's top film studios in Yeşilçam.