Şükrü Türen

Şükrü Türen — Biography

Şükrü Türen is first and foremost a man of the theatre: across nearly five decades on stage he has worked as an actor, director, artistic manager and teacher. Television audiences know him from series such as Küçük Ağa, Zeytin Tepesi, Annem Uyurken and Rengarenk, and more recently from Kuruluş Osman, Dayton and Bahar.

A graduate of the theatre department of the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Istanbul State Conservatory, he has been with the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality City Theatres since 1977. On stage he has played in Kral Lear, Vişne Bahçesi, Üç Kız Kardeş, Tartuffe and Hortlaklar; as a director he has staged Shakespeare's Othello and Coriolanus as well as Reis Bey, Önce İnsan and Tarla Kuşuydu Juliet. In 2001 he won the Afife Jale Award for Best Actor. He also took on management roles, serving as general artistic director of the İBB City Theatres from 2000 to 2002 and of the Eskişehir Metropolitan Municipality City Theatre in 2006-2007, and he sat on the Afife Jale Awards jury and on the board of the Turkish branch of the International Theatre Institute.

He came to the screen in 1987 with the film Aşkın İlk Yarısı; Merdoğlu, Sensiz Olmuyor, Gurbet Kuşları, Anne and Size Baba Diyebilir miyim? are other stops in his career. He teaches theatre at Haliç University Conservatory. He is married with one child.