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Rüçhan Çalışkur

Rüçhan Çalışkur

Actor · 79 years old

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Age79 years old
Birth dateFebruary 13, 1947
BirthplaceTurkey
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signAquarius

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Rüçhan Çalışkur — Biography

Rüçhan Çalışkur is an actress whose career runs from the State Theatres stage into film and television. She won an award for her part in Yeşim Ustaoğlu's Bulutları Beklerken (Waiting for the Clouds), and in recent years reached a wide audience as Afet in the series Bir Gece Masalı.

She graduated from the Theatre Department of the Ankara University State Conservatory and joined the State Theatres company in 1979. Her stage work began in Ankara and continued at the Istanbul State Theatre, in plays such as Deli Dumrul, Lisistrata, Danton'un Ölümü, Afife Jale and Leenane'in Güzellik Kraliçesi; for the last she was named best supporting actress at the 2001 Afife Theatre Awards. She moved in front of the camera around 2003, and Waiting for the Clouds brought her the best actress prize at the Istanbul Film Festival in 2004. On television she first drew notice as Irazca in Yılanların Öcü, followed by Parmaklıklar Ardında, Avlu and Bir Gece Masalı. Her films include Zenne, Elveda Katya, Zerre, Borç and Evcilik.

In 2020 she was awarded best actor in Delhi for the short film Tor. She also works as a voice actress and is the elder sister of the stage actor Cüneyt Çalışkur.

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

Playing a part with two names, Ayşe / Eleni, in Bulutları Beklerken gives Rüçhan Çalışkur a playing field that series rarely offer, and it won her best actress at the Istanbul Film Festival. Her cinema work, such as Kezban in Zenne, seems to me to expect far more range than the supporting parts she plays on television.

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

Nilgün Demir in Avlu, Gülayse in Kalp Atışı, Parmaklıklar Ardında: a good part of Rüçhan Çalışkur's television work consists of adaptations of foreign series. In an adaptation the source often draws the limits of a part, and in my view that is narrow room for an actress from the theatre.

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