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


Life and career

Selışık Onat was born in
Ankara Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, maki ...
in 1939. After finishing her studies at
Robert College The American Robert College of Istanbul ( tr, İstanbul Özel Amerikan Robert Lisesi or ), often shortened to Robert, or RC, is a Selective school, highly selective, Independent school, independent, mixed-sex education, co-educational Secondary ...
, she enrolled in
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's School of Literature. While continuing with her studies, she became one of the founders of , a movement focused on bringing together young stage actors from different universities and schools across Turkey. She subsequently started working at Kenter Theatre and Ankara State Theatre. She got her master's degree from the
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. She continued her doctorate program on comparative drama studies at the same university. She continued her career in the United States by both appearing and staging a number of plays at
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and the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. In Turkey, she worked as a director at the Istanbul City Theatres. Her portrayal of Signora Fioria in the play ''
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'', which was staged at Lincoln Center, earned her a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play in 2000. During her nearly forty-year career as an educator she taught various theatre and acting courses at the
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and graduate acting classes at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She also taught acting and drama courses at Koç University for about 4 years.


Selected filmography


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* 1939 births Living people Actresses from Ankara Turkish film actresses Turkish stage actresses Turkish television actresses Robert College alumni {{Turkey-actor-stub