played the mandolin beautifully, and my older sister could sing. Müşfik was the baby of the family and the favorite. I wanted to do something to be noticed. When I realized this, I tried to turn my weakness into my strength. When you do that, your attention and discipline, your study time and your sense of responsibility are all heightened. I should also explain that my mother and father were theater actors. In other words, we had the blood of Shakespearean actors in our veins.” Whether her genes or the strength that was born of Yıldız Kenter’s weakness was the more influential is a toss-up, but what is certain is that she took the stairs two at a time on the path she had laid out for herself... And on 12 December 1948, at the age of 20, she embarked on her professional career in Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ at the Ankara State Theater.

“YOU’LL NEVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING SO BE AN ACTOR”
But when Müşfik Kenter set foot into this world, the exact opposite of his big brother’s words came true. Yıldız Kenter’s brother, who was 15 at the time, is still spoken of as a great