Nazmiye Oral (born 1969) is a Dutch actress and writer. She has won a

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Career

Nazmiye Oral began her career working for Dutch Muslim Broadcasting and interviewing figures such as Theo van Gogh and

Pim Fortuyn Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn (; 19 February 1948 – 6 May 2002), was a Dutch politician, author, civil servant, businessman, sociologist and academic who founded the party Pim Fortuyn List (Lijst Pim Fortuyn or LPF) ...

. She subsequently has acted in films, television series and plays. In 2016, she won the

for her role playing a concerned mother in ''

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''. Oral appeared in the third season of ''

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'' playing a mafia boss, in 2021. A voice coach helped her to hone the

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accent. Oral is also a writer. She was a columnist for ''

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'' from 2003 until 2012 and wrote weekly columns for ''

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'' for a year. In 2001 released a novel entitled 'Zehra' which was nominated for the E. du Perron Prize. She wrote and performed the play ''Niet meer zonder jou'' (''No longer without you''). with her own mother.

Personal life

Oral was born in

Hengelo Hengelo (; Tweants: ) is a city in the eastern part of the Netherlands, in the province of Overijssel. The city lies along the motorways A1/E30 and A35 and it has a station for the international Amsterdam – Hannover – Berlin service. Popu ...

in the Netherlands, in 1969. From the age of 6 until 10 she lived with her grandparents in a small village in Turkey. She then returned to the Netherlands, studying fashion in

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. Her parents set up an arranged marriage which she avoided by marrying a Dutch man instead. In her first marriage she had two daughters and in 2021 became engaged a second time.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Oral, Nazmiye 1969 births 21st-century Dutch novelists 21st-century Dutch dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Dutch women writers 21st-century Dutch actresses 20th-century Dutch actresses People from Hengelo Living people Former Muslim critics of Islam Former Muslims turned agnostics or atheists