Çiğdem Selışık Onat
Born
Çiğdem Selışık

(1939-05-14) 14 May 1939
Ankara, Turkey
OccupationActress

Çiğdem Selışık Onat (born 14 May 1939) is a Turkish actress.

Life and career

Selışık Onat was born in Ankara in 1939. After finishing her studies at Robert College, she enrolled in Istanbul University's School of Literature. While continuing with her studies, she became one of the founders of Genç Oyuncular, a movement focused on bringing together young stage actors from different universities and schools across Turkey.[1] She subsequently started working at Kenter Theatre and Ankara State Theatre. She got her master's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1] She continued her doctorate program on comparative drama studies at the same university.[1] She continued her career in the United States by both appearing and staging a number of plays at Lincoln Center and the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.[1] In Turkey, she worked as a director at the Istanbul City Theatres.[1] Her portrayal of Signora Fioria in the play The Time of the Cuckoo, which was staged at Lincoln Center, earned her a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play in 2000.[1]

During her nearly forty-year career as an educator she taught various theatre and acting courses at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and graduate acting classes at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.[1] She also taught acting and drama courses at Koç University for about 4 years.[1]

Selected filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
2015 Çırak Makbule
2016 İstanbul Kırmızısı[2] Süreyya Soysal
2017 Yol Ayrımı Firdevs
2019 Çiçero
Television
2018 Ufak Tefek Cinayetler Tomris TV series
2018 Hakan: Muhafız Azra Netflix original series
2019 Kardeş Çocukları Rezzan TV series
2020–2021 Uyanış: Büyük Selçuklu Seferiye Hatun TV series
2021 Hamlet Amelia GAİN original series
2022 Alef İsmihan BluTV original series
2023 Ne Gemiler Yaktım Neriman TV series

Awards and nominations

Year Award Work Category Result Notes
2000 Drama Desk Award The Time of the Cuckoo Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Nominated [1]
2015 52nd Antalya International Film Festival Çırak Best Supporting Actress Won [3]
2016 27th Ankara International Film Festival Best Supporting Actress Won [4]
2017 50th Turkish Film Critics Association Awards Yol Ayrımı Best Supporting Actress Nominated [5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Çiğdem Selışık Onat kimdir? Çiğdem Selışık Onat nereli ve kaç yaşında?". Sözcü. 22 March 2019. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  2. ↑ "İstanbul Kırmızısı setinden ilk fotoğraflar". NTV (in Turkish). 4 June 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  3. ↑ "52'nci Uluslararası Antalya Film Festivali'nde Altın Portakal'ın ilk sahipleri belli oldu". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 6 December 2015. Archived from the original on 2 December 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  4. ↑ "27. Ankara Uluslararası Film Festivali Sona Erdi". Milliyet (in Turkish). 8 May 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "SİYAD'da 2017 yılı adayları belirlendi". CNN Türk (in Turkish). 10 January 2018. Archived from the original on 5 February 2018. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
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