Zerrin Tekindor

The Turkish actress and painter Zerrin Tekindor was born in 1964 in Burhaniye. In 1985 she graduated from Hacettepe University State Conservatory, School of Theater. In that year, she began to work at Adana State Theatre as an intern. After two years she was charged with a duty in Ankara State Theatre and performed in numerous plays such as; Laundry, Ferhad and Sirin, A Noisy and Clamorous Story, Death, Istanbul Efendisi, The Last Great Lovers, The Window Thats Opens to Sky, Deers Curst, From War to Peace From Love to Quarrel, Love Kills, The Government Inspector, A Place in the Middle of the Earth. In 2003 she moved to Istanbul to work in Istanbul State Theatre. In 2004 she performed in The Government Inspector (N.V.Gogol) as Anna Andreyevna. She won an award for the Best Supporting Actress in Comedy in Afife Theatre Awards.

Besides her theatre career, Zerrin Tekindor received an education to develop her painting skills, as a special student in Bilkent University School of Fine Arts between 1990-1994 in the Halil Akdeniz Workshop. Zerrin Tekindor’s being an actress also shapes her paintings. The heroes of many plays are settled on her canvas as Tekindor’s figures by using mixed technique. With their costumes, actions, lines, and even with their appearances under the stage light, they become paintings, being filtered through Tekindor’s interpretation who is also part of that particular action on the stage.

At present, Zerrin Tekindor continues her career as an actress and a painter in Istanbul. Since 1994, she was held nine personal exhibitions.

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