Actress Civan Canova, who was treated at the hospital for a while, died at the age of 67. The master actor's death was announced by his colleague Esra Dermancıoğlu on his social media account.
Dermancıoğlu shared, “My friend, we lost the warmest person who touched me the most in this life. Civan wander in peace, baby, maybe we'll meet again somewhere, sometime. It's very new news. I wanted to announce to his loved ones and fans here.”
Kumru Tibet Aydın also shared on her social media account, “We just lost my dear brother. Goodbye my precious…”
Who is Civan Canova?
Ahmet Civan Canova (born 28 June 1955, Ankara – died 20 August 2022, Istanbul) is a Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actor, playwright, screenwriter and theater director.
Since 1979, he has acted in many plays as a State Theater artist. She received awards for the theater plays she wrote since the 1990s. The artist, who has appeared in many TV series and films, won the Golden Orange Best Supporting Actor Award in 2006 for his role as the tortured policeman in the movie Home Return, and the Afife Theater Awards Most Successful Actor of the Year Award in 2011 for his role in Bury the Dead.
He was born in 1955 in Ankara. His father is the theater actor Mahir Canova and his mother is Gündüz Sencer. His parents separated when he was young, and he was raised by his grandmother. Her mother made her second marriage to actress Kartal Tibet. During his primary school years, he took small roles in Radio Children's Hour, directed by his father at Ankara Radio. His stepfather, Kartal Tibet, introduced him to film sets. After primary school, he studied at TED Ankara College as a boarder.
After graduating from Ankara College in 1973, he started acting in Yılmaz Güney's film Friends in the summer of 1974, when he was preparing for the conservatory exams. In the same year, she enrolled in Ankara State Conservatory Theater Department. While he was a student, he starred in the movie Nehir (1977) directed by Şerif Gören. He graduated from the Conservatory in 1979 and joined the State Theater staff and started working at the Istanbul State Theatre, taking part in many plays. The artist has acted in movies as well as theater. For a long time, he played the roles of a rapist, young, rich, spoiled child in films.
He started writing for the first time in 1989 by writing a screenplay for a movie called Blind Meeting. This script entered the top ten in the scriptwriting competition held by the Ministry of Culture. In 1994, he wrote his first play, Apocalypse Waters. This play was staged by Kenan Işık; İsmet Küntay was awarded the Best Writer Award and Avni Dilligil the Best Theater Writer Award. In his third play, Curfew (1997), which he wrote after the play called Infrared Light, he ironically described a day spent by hotel customers who could not go out on a census day. He won the Cevdet Kudret Literature Award with this play. He married the artist Açelya Akkoyun in 1998, the couple divorced in 2004. Men's Toilet (1999), which contains an absurd view of the male world by Canova, and the one-man Wedding Song (2002), which is written from the perspective of a young woman who married a more mature intellectual man than her own marriage, deals with the isolated relationships of the internet age. His play Ful Yaprakları (2005) was among his most staged plays.
Canova wrote the script of Bizim Aile series in 1996 and portrayed Ataç character in the series. He played the roles of Artist Celal in the Flower Taxi series and Rahmi Gürpınar in the Shattered TV series.
In 2006, he won the Golden Orange Best Supporting Actor Award at the 43rd Golden Orange Film Festival and the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 12th Sadri Alışık Cinema and Theater Actor Awards for his role as the torturer cop in the movie "Eve Return". He shared it with İlyas Salman, who played the role of Friday in the movie "Sis and Night".
Continuing to act at the Istanbul State Theaters, Canova won the Best Actor of the Year award at the 2nd Afife Theater Awards (1998) for his role in the play Bir Espionage Requiem,[9] and the Best of the Year Award at the 5th Afife Theater Awards for his role in the play Cactus Flower. He was nominated for the Outstanding Musical or Comedy Actor Award (2001). In 2011, he won the Afife Theater Awards Most Successful Actor of the Year Award for his role in the play Bury the Dead.
Also dealing with the art of painting, Canova opened a painting exhibition at Teşvikiye Erinç Art Gallery in 2016 and at the Bitiatro in Beyoğlu, Istanbul in 2017.
In a video she released from her hospital room on August 4, 2022, Canova said that a mass was detected in her lung. Canova died on August 20, 2022. Esra Dermancioğlu announced the news of her death.
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