Ayla Arslancan

Ayla Arslancan — Biography

Ayla Arslancan was an actress who came from the theatre to become a familiar face of Yeşilçam and television. She is remembered above all for her roles in Züğürt Ağa, Selamsız Bandosu and Uçurtmayı Vurmasınlar. Her birth surname was Musaballı, and she died in 2015.

She spent her childhood and youth in Ankara and worked on stage for years; after appearing in many plays at the Tuncay Özinel Theatre she moved on to cinema and television. Her first screen work goes back to the 1970s: Çılgın Yenge, Diyet, Tatlı Cadının Maceraları and Bitirimler Sınıfı. Between the mid and late 1980s came Züğürt Ağa and Selamsız Bandosu, and she appeared in the series Üç İstanbul. In the 1990s she continued with Ah Gardaşım and Gelincik Tarlası. In the 2000s she reached a new generation through series such as Gümüş, Fırtına, Annem, Acemi Cadı and Sihirli Annem, while Kavşak, Separation, Nar and Entelköy Efeköy'e Karşı are films of the same period.

She died on 29 March 2015 in Istanbul, aged 78, in the hospital where she had been receiving treatment for lung cancer, and was buried at Kozlu Cemetery. The press remembered her as a veteran and master actress.