Yeşilçam's "Maid Girl" Suna Pekuysal was remembered with longing on the 17th anniversary of her death.

Born in Istanbul on October 24, 1933, with the name "Suna Belener", the artist met with the audience for the first time in the play "Artist Wanted" staged in the children's section of the Istanbul City Theatre while she was studying at the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory's Voice and Ballet Department.

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Pekuysal, who was a student of Cahide Sonku, Bedia Muvahhit, Vasfi Rıza Zobu, Hazım Körmükçü, Talat Artemel, Reşit Gürzap, Mahmut Moralı and Şevkiye Mav, later joined the Istanbul City Theatres drama department and played the role of "maid girl" in the play " Wild Girl" .

Pekuysal took roles in Elmer Rice's "On the Street" in 1954, Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" in 1956, Noel Coward's "What Do I Care" in 1959, Flers-Caillavet's "One of the Softhearted" in 1961, Hidayet Sayın's "Topuzlu" in 1964, Haldun Taner's "Shadow of the Donkey" in 1965, Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" in 1968 and "Tit for Tat" in 1976.

He did voice-over work in the film "Parade of Beauties"

The master artist, who also did voice-over work for the radio play Arkası Yarın (Back of the Yarın), expressed his longing for radio performances with the words, "I want to emphasize this: those radio performances were a lifetime for me. If they called me today and said, 'Come on, Suna Pekuysal,' I would run again. What is the word for running? I would fly, I would fly."

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Pekuysal contributed as a voice actor to the 1961 film "Parade of Beauties" , starring Türkan Şoray.

Pekuysal, who married actor Ergun Köknar in 1964, took part in the plays of the Üsküdar Actors' Group, which she founded with her husband between 1970 and 1973.

Suna Pekuysal was deemed worthy of the "Avni Dilligil" and "Ulvi Uraz" awards in 1980 for her role in Fakir Baykurt's adaptation of "Tırpan".

The artist, who shared the same stage with Zihni Göktay for many years in the operetta "Lüküs Hayat" staged by Haldun Dormen at the Istanbul City Theatres in 1984, won the 1986 Art Institution and 1987 İsmail Dümbüllü awards for this role.

Received a Lifetime Achievement Award

The artist was also deemed worthy of the 1998 Afife Theatre Awards-Nisa Serezli Aşkıner "Lifetime Achievement Award", the 2000 "Belkıs Dilligil Honorary Award", the 2001 38th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival "Lifetime Honorary Award" and the 2003 "Muhsin Ertuğrul Theatre Labor Award".

After her retirement, Pekuysal took part as a guest artist in the play "Raspberry" written by Joseph Kesselring and directed by Çetin İpekkaya at the City Theatres.

Pekuysal, who also appeared before the audience in the TV series "Yeter Anne", "Kadın Savcısı" and "Ekmek Teknesi", fit into her artistic career more than 250 plays and nearly 100 movies with leading and supporting roles.

Some of the films in which Pekuysal, who passed away in Istanbul on July 22, 2008, starred are as follows:

"My Dear Companion" (1952), "The Carpet Girl" (1953), "The Fall of Leaves" (1958), "A Spring Evening" (1961), "The Bus Passengers" (1961), "Poor Necdet" (1961), "Cilali İbo Zoraki Baba" (1961), "Minnoş" (1961), "Sometimes Life Is Sweet" (1962), "The Little Lady's Destiny" (1962), "The Little Lady in Europe" (1962), "The Little Lady's Driver" (1962), "Love Is Beautiful" (1962), "Let's Find Our Joy" (1962), "Hürmüz with Seven Husbands" (1963), "A Husband for Rent" (1963), "The King of Drivers" (1964), "The Liar's "Mumu" (1965), "Wren" (1966), "Traffic Trouble" (1967), "Not a Woman, But a Troublemaker" (1968), "Bloody Nigar" (1968), "Ayşecik-Guardians of the Home" (1969), "Little Lady's Driver" (1970), "Keloğlan is Between Us" (1971), "Life is Beautiful When You Love It" (1971), "Keloğlan" (1971), "Keloğlan and Can Kız" (1972), "I Am a Strange Keloglan" (1976), "Construction" (2003), "There is a Thief" (2005)