Meral Zeren

Meral Zeren (born 1956) is a Turkish actress whose popularity started to flourish during the early 1970s and is known to have collaborated with some well-known actors of that era.

Biography
Meral Zeren's given birthname was Çiğdem Gümüş and although her earliest part of life had started on bad terms according to one of the widespread view that when her mother whilst being pregnant learns of her husband's polygamous affair with other woman, deserts the place where she lived with her husband(Diyarbakır) and heads to Istanbul and where Zeren gets to be born, but it seems contentious regarding other sources on her birthplace. And then, Zeren received her primary and secondary education in Istanbul, though becoming compelled to drop out of school. Yet she succeeded in making herself a place when she was just 15 had already started singing on stages and caught attention of well-known directors of that time, such as Atıf Yılmaz and Memduh Ün and they provided her eventual introduction  into the big screen.

Zeren's debut role in a film came from a movie named "Önce Vur sonra Sev"(1971) written by Bülent Oran and starred by lead actor Yılmaz Köksal. After that a wave of her other films got released which she was given roles opposite to some prominent actors, like Kemal Sunal(Salako,Hanzo), Cüneyt Arkın(Yanaşma), Barış Manço(Baba bizi eversene) and others.

Selected filmography

 * 1971 Önce vur sonra sev
 * 1971 Alaaddin'in Lambası
 * 1971 Battal Gazi Destanı
 * 1972 Battal Gazi'nin intikamı
 * 1972 Kanlı Para
 * 1972 Çöl Kartalı
 * 1972 Üç sevgili
 * 1972 Dadaloğlu'nun Intikamı
 * 1972 Karaoğlan Geliyor
 * 1973 Bitirim Kardeşler
 * 1973 Yanaşma
 * 1974 Salak Milyoner
 * 1974 Enayi
 * 1974 From the Village to the city
 * 1974 Salako
 * 1975 Hanzo
 * 1975 Şaşkın damat
 * 1975 Salak Bacılar
 * 1976 Nereye bakıyor bu adamlar
 * 1978 Aşk ve Adalet
 * 1980 Banker Bilo
 * 1984 Şaşkın Gelin
 * 1994 Tehlikeli Kadın
 * 1995 Polis dosyası
 * 1996 Zehirli Çiçek
 * 2000 Karlar Eriyince
 * 2001 Kardakiler
 * 2002 Kenar Mahalle
 * 2003 Sen hiç Güneşte Üşüdünmü?
 * 2006 Eden bulur

Accolades

 * 2012, 49.Golden Orange Film Festival- Lifetime Honor award