Çolpan İlhan is a Turkish

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 cinema and theatre actress. She has been awarded the title of 'State artist of Turkey". She has acted in a total of more than 300 films and theatre plays.

Çolpan İlhan did her early education at Kandilli Kız Lisesi. Later she studied theatre at İstanbul Belediye Konservatuarı and art at İstanbul Devlet Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi. With her fellow students, she formed an amateur theatre group called Akademi Tiyatrosu.

In 1957, she acted in her first film called Kamelyalı Kadın. The same year, she acted in her first professional play Sevgili Gölge with Münir Özkul

Münir Özkul

Münir Özkul is a retired Turkish cinema and theatre actor. He has been awarded the title of "State Artist of Turkey"...

. She worked mostly in theater for some years after this with Küçük Sahne theatre and Oda theatre. From the 1960s, she worked almost entirely in cinema.

In 1998, she was given the title of "State Artist of Turkey' by the Turkish ministry of culture. She is the sister of poet and writer Attila İlhan

Attila Ilhan

Attilâ İlhan was a Turkish poet, novelist, essayist, journalist and reviewer.-Early life:Attilâ İlhan was born in Menemen in İzmir Province, Turkey. He received most of his primary education in İzmir. However, because of his father's job, he completed his junior high school education in different...

 and surviving wife of actor Sadri Alışık

Sadri Alisik

Sadri Alışık, born Mehmet Sadrettin Alışık was a popular Turkish film actor.- Biography :...

. Çolpan İlhan is also the founder of the Sadri Alışık cultural center.

Filmography

• Kamelyalı Kadın (1957)
• Ak Altın (1957)
• Yaşamak Hakkımdır (1958)
• Bir Şoförün Gizli Defteri (1958)
• Asi Evlat (1958)
• Zümrüt (1959)
• Yalnızlar Rıhtımı (1959)
• Şeytan Mayası (1959)
• Kalpaklılar (1959)
• Hayatım Sana Feda (1959)
• Sepetçioğlu (1961)
• Avare Mustafa (1961)
• Cumbadan Rumbaya (1961)
• Aşkın Saati Gelince (1961)
• In der Hölle ist noch Platz (1961)
• Allah Cezanı Versin Osman Bey (1961)
• Ver Elini İstanbul (1962)
• Sonbahar Yaprakları (1962)
• İkimize Bir Dünya (1962)
• Zorla Evlendik (1963)
• Temem Bilakis (1963)
• Korkusuz Kabadayı (1963)
• Kamil Abi (1963)
• Bütün Suçumuz Sevmek (1963)
• Barut Fıçısı (1963)
• Turist Ömer (1964)
• Şu Kızların Elinden (1964)
• Ahtapotun Kolları (1964)
• Zennube (1965)
• Yankesicinin Aşkı (1965)
• Tamirci Parçası (1965)
• Komşunun Tavuğu (1965)
• Kocamın Nişanlısı (1965)
• Bir Garip Adam (1965)
• Berduş Milyoner (1965)
• Şakayla Karışık (1965)
• Ekmekçi Kadın (1965)
• Seven Kadın Unutmaz (1965)
• Turist Ömer Dümenciler Kralı (1965)
• Turist Ömer Almanya'da (1966)
• Siyah Gül (1966)
• Namus Kanla Yazılır (1966)
• Kıskanç Kadın (1966)
• Kenar Mahalle (1966)
• İdam Mahkumu (1966)
• El Kızı (1966)
• Boyacı (1966)
• Allahaısmarladık (1966)
• Kolejli Kızın Aşkı (1966)
• Sokak Kızı (1966)
• Zehirli Hayat (1967)
• Yıkılan Gurur (1967)
• Sinekli Bakkal (1967)
• Marko Paşa (1967)
• Akşamcı (1967)
• Ağlayan Kadın (1967)
• Ağır Suç (1967)
• Kaderin Cilvesi (1967)
• Hicran Gecesi (1968)
• Cemile (1968)
• Sonbahar Rüzgarları (1969)
• Kaldırım Çiçeği (1969)
• İnleyen Nağmeler (1969)
• İki yetime (1969)
• Galatalı Fatma (1969)
• Talihsiz Yavru Fatoş (1970)
• Aşk-ı Memnu (1974)
• Seni Kalbime Gömdüm (1982)
• İlk Aşk (1997) * Ağaçlar Ayakta Ölür (2000)
• Tatlı Hayat (2001)
• Dansöz (film)|Dansöz (2001)
• Yeşil Işık (2002)
• Yanık Koza (2005-2006)

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