Nur Sürer

Nur Sürer

Actor · 72 years old

Melek in the series Kayıtdışı

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Age72 years old
Birth dateJune 21, 1954
BirthplaceBursa
ProfessionActor
Height1.64 m
Weight66 kg
Zodiac signCancer
Eye colourBrown
EducationLise Mezunu
SpouseSarp Kuray
ChannelFox Tv

Nur Sürer — Biography

Nur Sürer was born in Bursa on 21 June 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.

Known for her outspoken stance on women's rights, Sürer was detained by police after joining May Day events in Istanbul in 2007 and released the next day. 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; in summer 2026 she won a defamation suit she had filed.

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