Fatos Silan
- Actress
She was born on July 14th, 1966 in Istanbul, Turkey, as the second
child of an engineer father (from Yugoslavia) and an artist mother
(from Circassia), sister of an artist, granddaughter of a poet. After
graduation from Galatasaray High School, which is one of the most
renowned and influential high schools of modern Turkey, she moved to
Los Angeles to attend Parsons School of Design where she studied
interior design. She started working as an interior designer when
she was still very young. During a trip, she met her future husband and
moved to Mexico to be with him. After three years in Mexico, she woke up
one morning and realized that was not she wants to do, she had to
return to Los Angeles and start a career in acting, and that's
precisely what she did. She trained under and befriended acting coach
Charlie Laughton in the Actor's Studio. She joined a theater group to
stage European plays and had a successful stage career. She preferred
work in independent films and kept away herself from Hollywood. In 2002,
after both of her parents death, somehow she couldn't leave Turkey and
twenty years after living different countries, she decided to stay. She
continues to live and work in Istanbul, Turkey.
