Toto Karaca

Opera Singer, Theatre Actor/Actress, Actor/Actress

Birth
18 March, 1912
Death
22 July, 1992
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Other Names
İrma Felegyan

Opera, movie and theatre artist (B. 18th March 1912, Istanbul - D. 22nd July 1992, Istanbul). Her real name was İrma Felegyan. She came from a Turkish family of Armenian origin. She changed her name to Toto after marrying the theatre artist Mehmet Karaca and was named as Toto Karaca. She was the niece of the theater artist Vartiter Felegyan and the mother of the musician Cem Karaca. She took ballet lessons at her young ages. She took part in musical plays by using the name İrma Toto. She was ranked among the most important character players of the Turkish Theater and Cinema. She passed to the operetta of Ömer Aydın in the years 1930. Together with her husband and friends, she was among the founders of the İstanbul Theatre in the year 1960.  

            Toto Karaca got on the stage in many theater plays and operas. Besides, she took part in cinema movies such as “Bizim Kız”, “Yasemin”, “Bağda Gül”, “Kadının Fendi” and “Gülünüz Gülünüz”. The funeral ceremony of İrma Toto Felegyan Karaca who died in Istanbul was realized in the Patriarchate Church of Kumkapı. She was buried next to her mother Mari Hranuş Felekyan and her aunt Vartiter Felekyan in the Armenian Cemetery of Şişli.  

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