Çiğdem Selışık Onat
The actor, who was born in Ankara in 1939, started studying at Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, after completing his education at Robert College. While he was continuing his undergraduate education, he was among the founders of Young Players.
Filmography
- 2015 — Apprentice — Makbule — Emre Konuk
- 2016 — Istanbul Red — Süreyya Soysal — Ferzan Özpetek
- 2017 — Crossroads — Firdevs — Yavuz Turgul
- 2019 — Cicero — Serdar Akar
- 2018 — Petty Murders — Tomris Yiğitsoy — Star TV
- 2019 — Brother's Children — Rezzan — Star TV
- 2020-2021 — Awakening: Great Seljuk — Seferiye Hatun — TRT 1
- 2023-2024 — What Ships I Burned — Neriman — Show TV
- 2019 — Hakan: The Guardian — Azra — Netflix
- 2021 — Hamlet — Amelia — GAIN
- 2022 — Alef — İsmihan — BluTV
- 2026 — Separation is Included in Love — Netflix
Awards and nominations
- 2018 — 23rd Sadri Alışık Theater and Cinema Actor Awards — Selection Committee Special Award — - — Won
- 2017 — 50th Cinema Critics Association Awards — Best Supporting Actress — Crossroads — Nominated
- 2016 — 27th Ankara International Film Festival — Best Supporting Actress — The Apprentice — Won
- 2015 — 52nd International Antalya Film Festival — Best Supporting Actress — The Apprentice — Won
Çiğdem Selışık Onat was born on May 14, 1939 in Ankara, Türkiye.
After completing her education at Robert College, Çiğdem Selışık Onat attended Istanbul University Faculty of Letters for a while. During his higher education, he was in the founding group of Young Players and took part in various plays. He worked as an actor at Kenter Theater and Ankara State Theatre. He continued his directing lessons at the Conservatoire de le Center de l'Est in France.
He completed his master's degree in theater at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He continued his PhD program on comparative drama studies at the same university. Throughout his career, he took part as a director and actor in various plays in America, especially at Lincoln Center and New York University Tisch Theater Department.
He worked as a director at Istanbul City Theaters in Turkey. She won the World Theater Award at the Drama Desk Awards in America for her role as Signora Fiorina in the play The Time of Cuckoo, staged at Lincoln Center. During his nearly forty-year career as an educator, he taught various theater and acting courses at North Carolina School of Arts and postgraduate acting courses at New York University Tisch School of Arts.
Çiğdem Selışık Onat, who also taught Acting and Drama at Koç University for about 4 years, participated in the 52nd International Antalya Film Festival and the 27th International Film Festival with her performance in the movie "Apprentice" in 2015. She won the "Best Supporting Actress" award at the Ankara International Film Festival.
Onat, who starred in Ferzan Özpetek's movie "Istanbul Red" in March 2017, met the audience with Yavuz Turgul's movie "Yol Ayrımı" in November.
In 2018, he appeared as a guest actor in the TV series "Ufak Tefek Cinayetler" with the character "Tomris Yiğitsoy".
Çiğdem Selışık Onat, who appeared in the movie "Çiçero", which was released in 2019, also played the character of "Rezzan" in the TV series "Kardeş Çocukları" broadcast on Star TV and "Azra" in the second season of Netflix's "Protector-Muhafız" series.
Productions in which he took part
- Petty Murders (2017) — Tomris Yiğitsoy
- Separation is Also Included in Love (2026)
- Awakening: Great Seljuk (2020) — Seferiye Hatun
- Istanbul Red (2017) — Süreyya
- Hamlet (2021) — Amelia
- What Ships I Burned (2023) — Neriman Hersekli
- Crossroads (2017) — Firdevs
- Addition (2025)
- The Apprentice (2015)
- Cicero (2019) — Wife Frans von Papen
Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.
📚 Source: Wikipedia
