
Fatma Karanfil
Acting
Biography
Fatma Karanfil (3 February 1952 - 4 June 2024) was a Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actress. After studying at LCC, she started working in cinema in 1968 with the third place she won in the Ses magazine contest. She married Ali Kocatepe in 1975 and later separated; she went to London to study textile education between 1976 and 1980, during the sex movie boom. She married for the second time in 1984. After recovering from breast cancer, she returned to the stage in 2001.
Born: February 3, 1952
Place of Birth: Eskisehir, Turkey
Known For

3 Apples Fell from the Sky
Recep, a retired soldier, is left alone after losing his wife. He lives a routine life every day. She cannot get along with her upper neighbor Nilgün, who is a prostitute. He tries to kick Nilgün out of the apartment because he is the manager. One day, his grandson Ali comes to stay for a while. He advises Ali to stay away from Nilgün.

Love Once Again
Zeynep gets married to a man whom her family does not approve and goes to the U.S.A to live there. She gives a birth to a baby boy but when her marriage does not go well she decides to return to Turkey as devastated. Fatih, on the other hand, comes from a rich family and goes to the U.S.A. to study. But, he does not find what he has expected and decides to go back to Turkey. These two people from different backgrounds come across to each other at the same flight to Turkey. They make a marriage agreement on the flight. Fatih wants Zeynep to pretend his wife because his family forces him to get married to Irem. He wants his freedom back. Zeynep, on the other hand, does not want to ask help from her family so, she accepts Fatih’s offer.

Remember us
Kaan has difficulty getting a higher position in his work where he has built a good career. While he was occupied with his wife, children and his work, he has pretty much neglected his father. Until one day he is obliged to take care of him.

Sarmaşık Gülleri

Forbidden Love
Having lost his wife eleven years ago, Adnan devoted all his attention to his daughter Nihal and his son Bülent. Adnan, who lives in one of the most prominent mansions along the Bosporus in Istanbul with a relative's son Behlül, and his children's nanny, meets Bihter who is also a socialite couple's daughter she is very elegant and beautiful, everyone who meets her get stunned and jealous of her, and he falls in love with her. While searching for peace, safety and happiness in Adnan's mansion, Bihter meets passion. Behlül and Bihter fall completely into each other and become drowned by their infatuation with each other. Their secret love affair will soon affect every member of the family.

Endless Love
Kınalı Kar is a miniseries portraying the love stories of several people in the Turkish village of Kınalı Kar, most notably Ali and Nazar.

Fosforlu Cevriyem
Living on a farm with her father and stepmother, Necla, nicknamed 'Fosforlu Cevriye' because of her masculine demeanor, and her sister who drinks herself into alcohol, her life changes completely one day when her father is found dead at home. Necla will have to take on a crime she did not commit in order to find the murderer.

Çanakkale 1915
The story of the film is about the Gallipoli Campaign during World War I on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey in 1915. The film covers the resurrection of Turkey following its defeat in the Balkan War, through depictions of Sergeant Mehmet Ali (Ali Ersan Duru) from Biga, Corporal Seyit and many others. To help Russia and threaten Constantinople, the Allies try to force through the Dardanelles Straight with a large fleet. Through a series of historical sketches, the film documents how they were defeated despite many difficulties and hardships.

Kezban
Kezban is a beautiful young girl who lives with her mother in a village. After her mother dies, her father learns that she is his daughter and comes to the village to take her with him, but Kezban does not know that this man is her father. Believing that she is going to live with a wealthy relative, Kezban is humiliated by the people in the house she goes to because she is a villager, and she becomes determined to improve herself and change...

Linç
The film tells the story of a convict who fights against the injustice of prison management. Arap Kadir is new to prison. He earns prison leader Fethi’s trust in no time thanks to his honesty and audacity. But Arap Kadir is left with no protection when Fethi is exiled to another prison. Seeing this as an advantage, the management decide to bring Arap Kadir to his knees.
Filmography
as Servet
as Ayşe Nene
as Müzeyyen Kervancıoğlu
as Muazzez Hanım
as Hacer
as Köylü Kadın
as Ayşe
as Şayeste Hanım
as Hülya
as Zehra Atahan
as Nagihan Yılmaz
as Necla
as Fatma
as Elif
as Muhtarin Kizi
as Nesrin
as Kezban
as Fatma
as Perihan
as Fatma bin Esed
as Ümran
as İnci
as Nilüfer