Feriha "Feri" Cansel (7 July 1944 â€" 2 September 1983) was a Turkish
Cypriot actress.She was born in LefkoÅŸa (Nicosia), Cyprus and spent
her early youth in the United Kingdom, acquiring British citizenship
and she became a hairdresser in London. Once settled in Turkey, she
also obtained Turkish citizenship, marrying for convenience the
janitor of the block of apartments in Ä°stanbul where she lived
concluding for that purpose. She started in show business as a stage
stripper, and she appeared in her first film in 1964.She was the
mother of actress Zümrüt Cansel.She started her acting career with
secondary roles in Turkish cinema's mainstream movies, and who
attained fame after she started to appear in seks filmleri, a
particular genre of which had developed in Turkey in the mid-1970s to
last until the eve of the 1980s. Her name became synonymous with the
then rising wave of films of the genre, with a much reduced story line
and a soft- to mid-hardcore pornographical content arranged to match
the tastes of local audiences often disguised as comedy films.
Cypriot actress.She was born in LefkoÅŸa (Nicosia), Cyprus and spent
her early youth in the United Kingdom, acquiring British citizenship
and she became a hairdresser in London. Once settled in Turkey, she
also obtained Turkish citizenship, marrying for convenience the
janitor of the block of apartments in Ä°stanbul where she lived
concluding for that purpose. She started in show business as a stage
stripper, and she appeared in her first film in 1964.She was the
mother of actress Zümrüt Cansel.She started her acting career with
secondary roles in Turkish cinema's mainstream movies, and who
attained fame after she started to appear in seks filmleri, a
particular genre of which had developed in Turkey in the mid-1970s to
last until the eve of the 1980s. Her name became synonymous with the
then rising wave of films of the genre, with a much reduced story line
and a soft- to mid-hardcore pornographical content arranged to match
the tastes of local audiences often disguised as comedy films.
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