Born in Istanbul on January 31, 1951, Selma Güneri grew up in an artistic family environment as the daughter of vocal artist Lütfi Güneri and the sister of orchestra conductor-singer Çetin İnöntepe. After losing his father in a traffic accident in 1967, he completed his primary education in America and secondary school at Şişli College; Then she started Kandilli Girls' High School, but took a break from her education.
After winning the competition organized by Perde Magazine in 1964, he started his artistic life with the movie "İstanbul'un Kızları" directed by Halit Refiğ. In 1965, she played a young belly dancer girl in the movie "I Live As I Die", directed by Duygu Sağıroğlu and starring Yılmaz Güney. In the same year, she received the "Best Actress" award at the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival for her performances in the films "I Live As I Die" and "Son Kuşlar", when she was only 15 years old.
Güneri, who married actor Yusuf Sezgin in 1966, had a son named Umut Sezgin, born on May 3, 1975; The couple divorced in 1979. Ten years after her engagement to drummer Asım Ekren in 1980, they got married and divorced again, which they lasted until 1994.
In 1996, he starred in the movie "Mum Scented Women", written by Mete Özgencil and directed by İrfan Tözüm, together with Halil Ergün, Hande Ataizi, Sevtap Parman and Yasemin Alkaya; In 2011, he shared the screen with Cem Kılıç and Zeynep Dörtkardeşler in the TV series "Dinle Dear". During the most productive periods of Yeşilçam in the 1960s and 1970s, he recorded four 45's with many stars such as Sadri Alışık, Fatma Girik, Yılmaz Köksal, Hülya Koçyiğit and released the album "Ayrılmaz" in 1987.
Throughout his career, between 1964 and 1966, he wrote "Five Candy Girls", "Widows Are Preferred", "Girls of Istanbul", "Ten Fearless Men", "You Hit Me and I'll Break It", "From the Hand of Those Girls", "Crying Eyes", "I Live As Long As I Die", "Recep from Kasımpaşa", "Ten Fearless Women", "Sugarli". Wow, Wow”, “Loving You”, “Driver Nebahat, It's Our Crime”, “Last Birds”, “Dangerous Man”, “Forbidden Streets”, “Scorpion Tail”, “Title”, “Endless Fear”, “Endless Road”, “Cezmi Band 007.5”, “Secret Emir”, “Bloody Square”, “Unforgiven”, “Fearless” Man", "Malkoçoğlu", "Honour is Written in Blood", "Bitter Coincidence", "Evening Sun", "Beyoğlu Mysteries", "Mortal Enemy", "Crazy Youth", "Child of Sin", "İslamoğlu", "Dead End", "Bloody Hıdrellez", "Bloody Grave", "Terrible Desire", "Unmarried People". He took part in many productions.
Productions in which he took part
He took part in a total of 63 productions; 12 of the most well-known are listed.
- Two Strangers (2007) — Asiye
- Listen Dear (2011)
- The Last Birds (1965) — Ayşe
- The Zapping Family (1993) — Great
- Bloody Nigar (1968) — Bedide
- The Father's Crime (1976)
- Broken Mirror (2002) — Esma Hatun
- Emerald (2004)
- Hijran Street (2007) — Tiraje
- The Joy of My Life (2023) — Rüçhan Sayar
- Dangerous Man (1965)
- Hamza Dalar Osman Çalar (1977) — Buket
Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.
