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Nur Sürer
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Nur Sürer

Actor · 72 years old

Melek in the series Kayıtdışı

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Age72
Birth dateJune 21, 1954
BirthplaceBursa
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signCancer
Eye colorBrown
EducationHigh-school graduate
SpouseSarp Kuray

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Nur Sürer — Biography

Nur Sürer was born in Bursa on June 21, 1954, the daughter of Ahmet and Rabia Sürer; her paternal side traced to Dagestan and her maternal grandmother was Albanian. She studied at Bursa Anadolu Girls' High School and spent four years with relatives in Switzerland in her youth. She began acting in 1971, crossed into film in 1979 starring in Erden Kıral's Bereketli Topraklar Üzerinde, and after 1984's Ayna gained international notice through Journey of Hope (1990), winner of the 1991 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

She won best actress at the Antalya Golden Orange festival in 1982 and 1989, then again at the Ankara Film Festival in 2002 for Sır Çocukları, later also receiving a lifetime achievement award. She reached wide audiences playing Neriman Kozcuoğlu in Asi, Sabiha in Tatar Ramazan and Melek Hanım in Kayıtdışı, joined the main cast of Çukur as Fadik Kurtuluş, played Feride İpekoğlu in Camdaki Kız until the character's suicide wrote her out, and later appeared in Aile.

She married Bülent Kayabaş in 1981 and later married Sarp Kuray, sentenced to life in prison as leader of the armed leftist 16 Haziran Hareketi.

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Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

The place to follow Nur Sürer in cinema is Bereketli Topraklar Üzerinde, Erden Kıral's film and her move onto the big screen. Working with Atıf Yılmaz on Dul Bir Kadın, Tunç Başaran on Uçurtmayı Vurmasınlar and Xavier Koller on Umuda Yolculuk suggests, in my view, that her real weight lies in the 1980s, in films by very different directors. That film work deserves a closer look than the television that made her known to a wide audience.

Series Binger A series devotee tracking character arcs, cast chemistry and season pacing.

Nur Sürer joined Çukur after it had begun; Fadik Kurtuluş is a character added to a mafia world that was already built, and in my view that is a hard place from which to build an arc of her own. Her Nermin Bayrakçı in Masum, which closes after eight episodes, is the more satisfying watch: in a short format a character's beginning and end stay inside one story.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Nur Sürer's career runs along two separate social tracks. One is the neighborhood and family series made for a wide audience, with Fadik Kurtuluş in Çukur and Neriman Kozcuoğlu in Asi; the other is stories where different classes and lives stand side by side in the big city, with Münevver in Sır Çocukları and Feray in Bir Başkadır. In my view that split keeps her roles from being locked into a single social type.

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