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Suzan Avcı

Suzan Avcı

Actor · 89 years old

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Age89 years old
Birth dateSeptember 25, 1937
BirthplaceBursa
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signLibra

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Suzan Avcı — Biography

Born in Bursa on 25 September 1937 to a Kazan Tatar father and a Crimean Tatar mother, Suzan Avcı lost her father to liver disease when she was six and moved with her family to Istanbul, where she went to work alongside her mother in a textile factory. Winning a magazine acting contest at thirteen brought no film role because her mother refused permission, and after marrying at fifteen and having a son, Mete, she began appearing on stage with the Muammer Karaca and Toto Karaca theatre companies. Entering cinema in the second half of the 1950s, she quickly became identified with the "vamp" image, playing formidable villainesses opposite the era's leading ladies; she caused a stir with Şehvet Uçurumları in 1962 and with a kissing scene alongside Sevda Nur in the 1963 film İki Gemi Yan Yana. She married screenwriter Erdoğan Tünaş, whom she met working on Turist Ömer Almanya'da (1966), in 1970, and their daughter Binnaz Avcı was born from the marriage; Avcı went on to appear in Kolsuz Kahraman, Acı İntikam, Fosforlu Cevriyem, Malkoçoğlu Cem Sultan and Acımak, cementing her status as one of Yeşilçam's most memorable femme fatales.

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Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

In Kilink İstanbul'da, Suzan Avcı's part is billed as Kilink's lover, so it takes its definition from the hero; in my view the same goes for Suzie in Casus Kıran. In these superhero and spy adventures her dangerous-woman presence adds colour, but for an action fan the centre of the fighting and the pace lies elsewhere, and the woman's side stays on the edge.

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Suzan Avcı is remembered in Yeşilçam for the bad-woman type, and in 1960s melodrama that type did social work: the other woman set against the good one made the era's moral yardsticks visible. Avcı appeared in emotional dramas from Aşk Mabudesi in 1969 to Baraj in 1977. In my view the worth of these jobs lies less in any single film than in how settled that mould was in the cinema of the time.

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