Jale Aylanç

Jale Aylanç — Biography

Jale Aylanç was born in Istanbul on 23 March 1948 and died in Ankara on 7 July 2020, after a career as a Turkish stage, film and television actress who also worked as a voice artist. She began her career in theatre in 1964 with the Halkevleri, performed at the Orhan Elçin Theatre the following year, then moved to the Ankara Birlik Theatre Stage before joining the Ankara Sanat Tiyatrosu, where she appeared in many plays over more than twenty years; she was also one of TRT's earliest dubbing artists. For her stage work she won the Sanat Kurumu Theatre Honor Award in 1990 and the Honor Award of the 5th International Ankara Theatre Festival in 2000.

Her film credits include Kırlangıç Fırtınası (1985), Ah Ana, in which she played Huriye, and Düttürü Dünya, in which she played Gülsüm (both 1988), as well as Tersine Akan Nehir (1996), İnsan Kurdu (1997) and Fırtına (2006); she also played Hafize Teyze in Yeşil Deniz (2014) and appeared in Unutursam Fısılda (2014). On television she played Kumru in Hayat Türküsü (2006), Makbule in the 2016 series listed internationally as Wounded Love, and Lemide in the 2017 production known as First Kiss.

Aylanç died in Ankara on 7 July 2020 at the age of 72; a funeral prayer was held for her at Karşıyaka Mosque, attended by relatives and a small number of colleagues, and she was buried the following day at Karşıyaka Cemetery, her death widely reported in the Turkish press.