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Hanan Turk
Category: Performing
Country: Egypt
About
Hanan Turk is an Egyptian Actress, who recently (2006) decided to wear Hijab regardless of the roles she was cast to play. Turk came to the decision with a group of Egyptian actresses including Hala Shiha and Abla Kamel.
Before becoming an actress, Turk was a ballerina at the Cairo Ballet Institute in Egypt. She starred in her first movie, “Raghba Motawahesha” in 1991, and since then has acted in numerous films (Dehk We Le’b We Gad We Hob”, “Al-Mohager”, and “Haramiyyah fi Tayland”) and TV series (“Al-Sabr Fel Malahat”, “Al-Mal We Al-Banoun”, and “Lan A’esh Fe Gelbab Aby”). In 2007, Turk was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.