Macide Tanır

Macide Tanır (1 January 1922 – 6 February 2013) was a Turkish actress.
In 1943, she joined the Turkish State Theatres and continued her career on stage until 1985. In 1991, she was named a State Artist. Aside from her career on stage and cinema, she was also known for her roles as a voice actress.
Life and career
Tanır was born in 1922. His father, İbrahim Birmeç, was a veterinary officer who migrated from Ioannina to Istanbul. She was raised in Pendik. After finishing her studies at Erenköy Girls High School she enrolled in the Ankara State Conservatory with her father's support. She started her education in the singing department. A year later, she switched to the theater department. She joined the State Theatres in 1943 after earning her master's degree. She first went on stage with a role in an adaptation of Molière's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme. She appeared on stage in more than sixty works. She left the State Theatres in 1985 and worked for Tiyatrokare for two years.
After ending her stage career, she was cast in the movies Yer Demir Gök Bakır, Yengeç Sepeti, and Cumhuriyet as well as the TV series Baharın Bittiği Yer and Şehnaz Tango. She also became known for her roles in radio theatre adaptations and worked as a voice actress on the Turkish version of a couple of movies.
In 1991, she was named a State Artist and later published her memoire Tiyatronun Cadısı in 2000. She died of respiratory failure in the intensive care unit on 6 February 2013. Tanır's body was buried in Emirgan Cemetery.
Awards
1961-62 Press poll among theater artists - Artist of the Year (Trees Die while Standing)
1964-65 Press-Workers Union - Artist of the Year (Order of the World)
1968-69 Art Lovers' Association - Best Actress (Hair Share)
1973-74 Art Lovers' Association - Best Actress (Mistake)
Art Foundation - Best Actress (Shadow Master)
1988 Ministry of Culture - Special Jury Prize
1988 City Theaters - Artist of the Year
1988 Hürriyet Newspaper - Artist of the Year
1989 Women's Union - Most Successful Artist
1990 Mersin Culture and Art Festival - Honorary Award
1990 Art Institution - Artist of the Year
1991 State Artist
1992-93 Avni Dilligil Honor Award - Guests of the House Without Music
1992-93 Italian Ministry of Culture - Adelaide Ristari Prize
1993 Ses-Der Award
1993-94 Istanbul International Lions Club Award
1996 Half Century On Stage - Golden Needle
1996 Lions Board of Directors Award
1996-97 ÇASOD Award
1997 1st Afife Theater Awards - Nisa Serezli Aşkıner Special Award
1998 Women's Union Şişli Branch 75th Anniversary of the Republic Award
1998 Mimoza Magazine - Awards to 75 Women in 75 Years
Theatre
Some works are included not under their original title, but rather under the title used for their adaptation.
Lost in Yonkers : Neil Simon - Tiyatrokare - 1992
Öyle Bir Sevgi Ki : Loleh Bellon - Ankara State Theatre - 1985
On Golden Pond : Ernest Thompson - Ankara State Theatre - 1983
Gölge Ustası : Yıldırım Türker\Yeşim Müderrisoğlu - Ankara State Theatre - 1982
Lady Windermere's Fan : Oscar Wilde - Ankara State Theatre - 1977
Dirlik Düzenlik : Oktay Rifat - Ankara State Theatre - 1974
The Misunderstanding : Albert Camus - Ankara State Theatre - 1973
Becket : Jean Anouilh - Ankara State Theatre - 1971
Blood Wedding : Federico Garcia Lorca - Ankara State Theatre - 1970
Finten : Abdülhak Hamit Tarhan - Ankara State Theatre - 1969
Kıl Payı : Edward Albee - Ankara State Theatre - 1968
Ecinliler : Fyodor Dostoyevski\Albert Camus - Ankara State Theatre - 1966
Dünyanın Düzeni : Seán O'Casey - Ankara State Theatre - 1964
Düşman Çiçek Göndermez : Pero Bloch - Ankara State Theatre - 1963
Los árboles mueren de pie : Alejandro Casona - Ankara State Theatre - 1961
Ghosts : Henrik Ibsen - Ankara State Theatre - 1960
Cephede Piknik : Fernando Arrabal - Ankara State Theatre - 1960
Günden Geceye : Eugene O'Neill - Ankara State Theatre - 1959
Gönül Avcısı : Diego Fabbri - Ankara State Theatre - 1958
Kraliçe ve Asilleri : Albert Hackett\Frances Goodrich - Ankara State Theatre - 1957
Ruhlar Gelirse : Noël Coward - Ankara State Theatre - 1955
Nora : Henrik Ibsen - Ankara State Theatre - 1955
Akif Bey : Namık Kemal\Reşat Nuri Güntekin - Ankara State Theatre - 1955
Tanrılar ve İnsanlar (Gilgamesh) : Orhan Asena - Ankara State Theatre - 1954
Othello : William Shakespeare - Ankara State Theatre - 1954
Keçiler Adası : Ugo Betti - Ankara State Theatre - 1954
Hile ve Sevgi : Schiller - Ankara State Theatre - 1954
Güneşte On Kişi : Turgut Özakman - Ankara State Theatre - 1954
Batak : Galip Güral - Ankara State Theatre - 1953
Yanlış Yanlış Üstüne : Oliver Goldsmith - Ankara State Theatre - 1952
Sahne Dışındaki Oyun : Refik Ahmet Sevengi - Ankara State Theatre - 1952
Fatih : Nazım Kurşunlu - Ankara State Theatre - 1952
Ramak Kaldı : Thornton Wilder - Ankara State Theatre - 1952
Gölgeler : Ahmet Muhip Dranas - Ankara State Theatre - 1952
Elektra : Sophocles - Ankara State Theatre - 1952
Bir Piyes Yazalım : Adalet Ağaoğlu - Ankara State Theatre - 1952
Öteye Doğru : Sutton Vane - Ankara State Theatre - 1951
Legacy : Augustus Goetz - Ankara State Theatre - 1951
Köşebaşı : Ahmet Kutsi Tecer - Ankara State Theatre - 1951
Alınyazısı : Nahid Sırrı Örik - Ankara State Theatre - 1951
Şakacı : Sabahattin Kudret Aksal - Ankara State Theatre - 1951
Pembe Evin Kaderi : Turgut Özakman - Ankara State Theatre - 1950
The Old Tune : Reşat Nuri Güntekin - Ankara State Theatre - 1950
Peer Gynt : Henrik Ibsen - Ankara State Theatre - 1949
Küçük Şehir : Cevat Fehmi Başkut - Ankara State Theatre - 1949
Kıskançlar : Oktay Rıfat\Melih Cevdet Anday - Ankara State Theatre - 1949
Hekimliğin Zaferi : Jules Romains - Ankara State Theatre - 1949
Mercator : Plautus - Ankara State Theatre - 1949
Dünya Gözüyle : Charles Vildrac - Ankara State Theatre - 1949
Scapin the Schemer : Molière - Ankara State Theatre - 1949
Antigone : Sophocles - Ankara State Theatre- 1949
Filmography
1987 Yer Demir Gök Bakır
1989 Baharın Bittiği Yer
1994 Cadı Ağacı
1994 Yengeç Sepeti
1996 Şehnaz Tango (TV series)
1996 Kurtuluş
1998 Cumhuriyet
Voice acting
Goodbye Again - as Paula Tessier (portrayed by Ingrid Bergman)
Gilda - as Gilda Mundson Farrell (portrayed by Rita Hayworth)
Titanic
Murder, She Wrote (TV series)
Radio theatre
1966: Brahms'ı Sever misiniz? (from the series Arkası Yarın, an adaptation of a novel by Françoise Sagan)
Books
"Tiyatronun Cadısı", Macide Tanır, Bilgi Yayınevi (autobiography/memoire), Ankara, 2000.
References
External links
Interview with Macide Tanır, TRT, 1991
1922 births
2013 deaths
Turkish film actresses
Turkish stage actresses
Erenköy Girls High School alumni
State Artists of Turkey
Ankara State Conservatory alumni