Zerrin Tekindor

Zerrin Tekindor (born 5 August 1964) is a Turkish actress and painter.

Biography In 1985 she graduated from the Hacettepe University State Conservatory, School of Theater. In that year, she began to work at the Adana State Theatre as an intern. After two years she was charged with a duty in Ankara at the State Theatre and performed in numerous plays such as: Laundry, Ferhad and Sirin, A Noisy and Clamorous Story, Death, Istanbul Efendisi, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Skylight, 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 at the Istanbul State Theatre. In 2004 she performed in The Government Inspector (N. V. Gogol) as Anna Andreyevna. She won an Afife Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress in Comedy.

Besides her theatre career, Zerrin Tekindor also studied painting as a special student at the Bilkent University School of Fine Arts between 1990-1994 in the Halil Akdeniz Workshop. 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.

Zerrin Tekindor has a son with actor Çetin Tekindor. At present, Zerrin Tekindor continues her career as an actress and a painter in Istanbul. Since 1992, she has held nineteen personal exhibitions.

Theatre Death of a Salesman : Arthur Miller - Rufus Norris - Zorlu PSM, 2026 A Streetcar Named Desire : Tennessee Williams - ID İletişim & BKM - 2017 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? : Edward Albee - Oyun Atölyesi - 2013 Antony and Cleopatra : William Shakespeare - Oyun Atölyesi & Shakespeare's Globe - 2012 God of Carnage : Yasmina Reza - Istanbul State Theatre - 2009 Dünyanın Ortasında Bir Yer : Özen Yula - Istanbul State Theatre - 2007 The Government Inspector : Nikolai Gogol - Istanbul State Theatre - 2003 Love Kills : Vladimir Volkoff -Ankara State Theatre - 1999 Savaştan Barışa, Aşktan Kavgaya : Recep Bilginer - Ankara State Theatre - 1999 Geyikler Lanetler : Murathan Mungan - Ankara State Theatre - 1999 Skylight : David Hare - Ankara State Theatre - 1997 İstanbul Efendisi : Musahipzade Celal - Ankara State Theatre - 1995 Last of the Red Hot Lovers : Neil Simon - Ankara State Theatre - 1995 Death : Woody Allen - Ankara State Theatre - 1994 İstanbul Efendisi : Musahipzade Celal - Ankara State Theatre - 1993 Gürültülü Patırtılı Bir Hikaye : Savaş Dinçel - Ankara State Theatre - 1993 Ferhat ile Şirin : Nâzım Hikmet - Ankara State Theatre - 1992 Laundry : D. Durvin\H. Prevest - Ankara State Theatre - 1991 Woman in Mind : Alan Ayckbourn - Ankara State Theatre - 1987

Filmography TV series Cafe Casablanka Mars Kapıdan Baktırır Aşk-ı Memnu, Mademoiselle Deniz de Courton - 2008–2010 Yaprak Dökümü, Gişe Memuru (guest appearance) - 2010 Kuzey Güney, Gülten Çayak - 2011–2013 Kurt Seyit ve Şura, Yazar - 2014 Kara Sevda, Leyla Acemzade - 2015–2017 Şahin Tepesi, Tuna Akdora - 2018 Zemheri, Aliye Pınar - 2020 Mucize Doktor, Vuslat Kosoğlu - 2021 Between the World and Us - Burçin - 2022 Yüz Yıllık Mucize - Süreyya - 2023 Ben Onun Annesiyim - Suna - 2025

Film Pek Yakında - 2014 İkimizin Yerine - 2016 İstanbul Kırmızısı - 2017 Müslüm - 2018 Three Thousand Years of Longing - 2022