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Nursel Köse

Nursel Köse

Actor · 65 years old

Keriman in the series Paramparça

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Age65
Birth dateMarch 29, 1961
BirthplaceMalatya
ProfessionActor
Height1.75 m
Eye colorBrown
EducationFaculty of Architecture (Germany)

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Nursel Köse — Biography

Nursel Köse is an actress, cabaret performer and writer who has worked on stage and screen in both Turkey and Germany. Her international breakthrough was the role of Yeter in Fatih Akın's The Edge of Heaven (Yaşamın Kıyısında); Turkish audiences later came to know her as Keriman in Paramparça.

She went to Cologne to study architecture, worked briefly as an architect, and then committed fully to performing. She appeared in Turkish and German off-theatre productions, toured Germany with the women's cabaret group Yer Kozmetikçileri, which she founded in 1992, and also published poems and radio plays. Her first film part was in Hark Bohm's Yasemin (1988), and the lead in Buket Alakuş's Anam made her name. In Germany she took roles in SOKO Köln, Türkisch für Anfänger, Die Familienanwältin and Tatort. In Turkey she worked on Kış Masalı, Kötü Yol, 72. Koğuş, The Lamb and Avlu, and more recently in series such as Uzak Şehir and Karadut.

The Edge of Heaven brought her Best Supporting Actress awards at the Antalya Golden Orange, the Ankara Film Festival and the first Yeşilçam Awards; she won the same category at the Golden Orange again in 2014 for The Lamb. In 2013 she wrote and directed the short film Enkaz.

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

Even Nursel Köse's work on German television offers a social observation: Aische Ceman in SOKO Köln, Frau Yilmaz in Die Familienanwältin. Characters with Turkish names sit here outside the migration story, as everyday inhabitants of crime and legal series. In my view that shows the German-Turkish community being seen not only as an issue but as ordinary social fabric. The supporting actress awards Köse won for Yaşamın Kıyısında are the cinema counterpart of the same visibility.

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

The most striking thing about Nursel Köse's cinema work is that her awards came for supporting parts: Yaşamın Kıyısında and Kuzu. In my view this shows her standing out less by carrying a scene alone than by building a film's texture in short, well-placed performances. Her choice of directors is consistent too: from Fatih Akın to Kutluğ Ataman, she appears in the films of auteur filmmakers working along the line between Germany and Turkey.

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