Lale Oraloğlu

Movie and theatre actress (B. 28^th September 1924, Izmir –D. 15^th January 2007, Istanbul). She was the mother of actress Alev Oraloğlu. She went to Dame de Sion, Şişli Terakki, Sainte-Plucérie Fransız High School, Nişantaşı Secondary School, Beşiktaş Atatürk  Anadolu High School and Alman High School. She began to play the piano at the age of seven. She went to the Faculty of Literature, Department of English Philology. She worked as a journalist while she was student at Istanbul Conservatory, the Department of Theatre and Singing departments.

Oraloğlu drew attention at Muhsin Ertuğrul in drama schools and she went onstage with Yarış at Küçük Sahne in 1951. She took on roles in Kanlı Düğün, Hamlet, Yaz Bekârı. He attended to Oda Theater as a guest artist. She performed in Misafir and Matmazel Julie. She took roles in plays such as Burada gömülü, Tahta çanaklar, Çöl faresi at Karaca Theatre. Beginning from 1961, she had acted in tours she went on with the company she founded and which she named after herself. She acted in plays such as Hamlet, Denizden Gelen Kadın, Pygmalion and she directed some of them herself. Meanwhile, she began to appear in movies and she took the lead roles in many movies between 1951 and 1960. She directed various movies such as Bir Kadın Uğruna, Bizimkiler, Ölüm Bebekleri. In 1987, she shut down her company in order to be with her ninety years old mother. Later, she returned to the theatre but she generally preferred to go on tours.

She worked at several braches in the movie sector. She wrote scripts, she tried her hand at directing. Along with the first three female directors in Turkish cinema, her life was subjected in a documentary called Görünmeyen Kadınları. In the Türk Filmleri (T.N. Turkish Films) Contest, she won the Best Actress Award with Kırık Çanaklar (1961) and won Avni Dilligil Theater Special Jury Award in 2000. On December 1, 2001 she celebrated her 50^th Year in arts in a night celebration held by Ministry of Culture

MAIN MOVIES:

Director: Bir Kadın Tuzağı (1971), Hüdaverdi-Pırtık (1971), Hızlı Hızır (1972), Ölüm Bebekleri (1972).

Producer: Sevdiğim Sendin (1955).

Script Writer: Sevdiğim Sendin (1955), Kırık Çanaklar (1960), Hatırla Sevgilim (1961).

Actress: Yavuz Sultan Selim Ağlıyor (1952), Yıldırım Beyazıt ve Timurlenk (1952), Kanlı Para (1953), Altı Ölü Var - İpsala Cinayeti (1953), Yanola Nilgün (1954), İki Ateş Arasında (1954), Kötü Tohum (1963), Son (2001), Sihirli Annem (TV series, 2003), Candan öte (TV series, 2006).