Nazan Saatçi

Nazan Saatçi — Biography

The career of Turkish film actress and writer Nazan Saatçi ran from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s and took in Yeşilçam films as well as Pakistani and Iranian productions. She is best known for playing Emine opposite Kemal Sunal in Tokatçı (1983). Her results in beauty pageants also made her name; after her film career she settled in California, where she lives with her family.

She finished secondary school in Samsun and studied Turkish language and literature at the Faculty of Letters of Istanbul University. In 1978 İnci newspaper named her "cinema queen", and the same year she was second runner-up at Miss Europe 1978. Her first film was Fakir (1979), followed by Baba Kartal (1979), Ölümsüz (1982), Bir Zamanlar Kardeştiler (1983) and Tokatçı. In 1983 she was again second runner-up, at Miss Asia Pacific in the Philippines, and won the special "Miss Talent" award. She then turned to Pakistani cinema: her first Urdu film, Halchal, was released in 1985, and from 1985 to 1988 she appeared in productions such as Zanjeer, Talash and Badla. She was seen in Turkey again in Minyeli Abdullah 2 (1990) and Korkunun Bedeli (1995), and in 1995 took a part in the spy film Playing with Death, shot in Turkey and Iran.

She continued her acting training at the Los Angeles Actor Center and studied hypnotherapy. In 2011 she founded a non-profit organization called Fairy Voices, and in 2016 she published a book, Donny Trumpet Goes to the Election.