Parla Şenol

Born

7 May 1956 (aged 70)

Place of birth

Istanbul

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie

Parla Şenol was born on 7 May 1956 in Istanbul. As the daughter of the musician Armağan Şenol, she grew up in a family steeped in the arts. After the Italian Girls' Middle School and Site College, she studied psychology at Boğaziçi University; in her childhood and youth she received training in ballet, solfège and piano.

At the age of five she was chosen first in a child actor contest and thereby stepped into cinema, and by the age of twelve she had acted in thirty-eight films; one of the productions of this period is Çalıkuşu from 1966. After taking a break from cinema, she worked as a singer for seventeen years and released seven 45-rpm records. Dam Üstünde Saksağan, released in 1974, is remembered as the first attempt at rap in Turkish. Beginning voice-over work in 1981, Şenol, since she knew Italian, English and French, obtained a professional tour guide license in 1983 and continued that work for eight years.

From 2000 she began appearing in television series. She played Firdevs in Mühürlü Güller, Müstesna Yıldız in Selena and Neşe Peştemalcızade in Tövbeler Olsun. At the end of 2008 she returned to the theater with the comedy Eros Pansiyon, which she staged together with Yalçın Menteş.

Şenol played Berrin in Avşar Film's 2018 film Çocuklar Sana Emanet.