Omer Chawshin

Biography

Omer Chawshin is a Kurdish theater actor born in 1942 in Sulaymaniyah. He became a member of the Sulayymaniah Acting Troupe in 1967. Because of the lack of female actors and the restrictions on female actors, he wore and played female characters from the 1960s to the late 1980s.

Known For

Before Snowfall

as Sufi

Mardan

as Omer (Hotel Owner)

Whisper with the Wind

as Mam Baldar

Kick Off Kirkuk

as Mam Karim

The Woman of My Life

as The father

Life

as Old man at teahouse

Death Triangle

as Hawre's Father

Dol: The Valley of Tambourines

as Ahmed

The General Inspector

as Zhian