Nur Sürer

Nur Sürer is a veteran Turkish actress with more than 40 films to her name and three Best Actress awards from major Turkish festivals. She was born on 21 June 1954 and is especially known for politically engaged roles exploring prison conditions and women’s rights.

Film career

Sürer made her debut in Erden Kıral’s Bereketli Topraklar Üzerinde (On Fertile Lands), a landmark of Turkish social-realist cinema. She went on to work with many of the country’s leading directors and became one of the defining faces of Turkish auteur cinema in the 1980s and 1990s.

Her major awards include:

• Best Actress, Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival (1982) for Bir Günün Hikayesi
• Best Actress, Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival (1989) for Uçurtmayı Vurmasınlar, a moving story about a boy growing up in a women’s prison
• Best Actress, Ankara Film Festival (2002) for Sır Çocukları

Television

In recent years Sürer has also appeared in popular Turkish TV dramas, bringing her experience and authority to supporting roles and introducing her to a new generation of viewers and to international fans of Turkish series.

Legacy

With a career spanning more than four decades, Nur Sürer is regarded as one of the great actresses of Turkish cinema, admired for choosing roles that give a voice to women and to people on the margins of society.

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