Fatma Mesanet Jeyan Mahfi Ayral Tözüm (6 August 1928 – 29 October 2023) was a Turkish actress and voice artist.
Life and career
Jeyan was born on 6 August 1928 in
Istanbul. She started her artistic career with the encouragement of her father,
Necdet Mahfi Ayral, when she was only three years old, by being cast by
Muhsin Ertuğrul in the play ''
Peer Gynt
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'', a work of
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playw ...
. At
Istanbul City Theatres
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality City Theatre (Turkish: ''Istanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Şehir Tiyatroları''; Ottoman Turkish: Darülbedayi) The theater was founded in 1934 in the Ottoman Empire period (1914) as Dârülbedayi. It was a t ...
; she acted in many plays such as
''Happy Days'', ''Dressing the Nude'', ''Roots'', ''Half'' and ''Kezban'' and retired from there.
Tözüm started dubbing at the age of 10 with the voice of the TV show ''
Happy Days''. She has voiced many actresses such as
Belgin Doruk,
Türkan Şoray,
Filiz Akın,
Hülya Koçyiğit
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,
Fatma Girik,
Müjde Ar,
Hale Soygazi
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Biography
She was born on 21 September in Istanbul, Turkey in 1950. She studied French language, French philology at the university. She was chosen as ...
,
Emel Sayın,
Gülşen Bubikoğlu
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,
Ahu Tuğba and
Hülya Avşar. She decided to leave the cinema with her husband in 1954 and devoted herself to theater plays and dubbing for many years. She also worked as a radio commercial speaker for 3 years. In addition to theater, she acted in movies and television series.
In 2005, she was awarded
Bilge Olgaç
Bilge Olgaç (10 January 1940 – 3 March 1994) was a Turkish film director.
Life
Bilge Olgaç was born to a poor family in Vize, a town in Kırklareli Province on 10 January 1940. While still in vocational school in Istanbul, she married Vecdi B ...
Achievement Award at the 8th Flying Broom
International Women's Film Festival.
Personal life and death
Jeyan Mahfi Tözüm was married to composer Rauf Tözüm, who died in a traffic collision in 1978.
Tözüm died on 29 October 2023, at the age of 95. She was buried at
Zincirlikuyu Cemetery.
Filmography
* 1939: ''Allahın Cenneti''
* 1947: ''Gençlik Günahı''
* 1947: ''Seven Ne Yapmaz''
* 1949: ''Efsuncu Baba''
* 1949: ''Uçuruma Doğru''
* 1953: ''Beklenen Şarkı''
* 1954: ''Bozkurt Obası''
* 1972: ''Falcı''
* 1996: ''Gurbetçiler''
* 1996: ''Şehnaz Tango''
* 2000: Dadı
* 2001: Tatlı Hayat
* 2002: ''Ekmek Teknesi''
* 2004: ''Sahra''
* 2004: ''Yadigar''
* 2005: ''
Belalı Baldız
Belalı Baldız is the Turkey, Turkish remake of the American sitcom ''Hope & Faith''. The sitcom was produced by Med Productions. It was released in 2005 and aired on ATV (Turkey), ATV Turkey.
The show would also air in the Netherlands on RTL 5, ...
''
* 2006:
''Yaprak Dökümü''
* 2006: ''Hayırdır İnşallah''
* 2007: ''Hayat Apartmanı''
* 2010: ''Çığlık Çığlığa Bir Sevda''
* 2014: ''Deliha''
* 2018: ''Deliha 2''
References
External links
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1928 births
2023 deaths
20th-century Turkish actresses
21st-century Turkish actresses
Turkish film actresses
Turkish television actresses
Turkish voice actresses
Actresses from Istanbul
Turkish stage actresses
Burials at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery