Omer Chawshin

Known for Acting

Omer Chawshin's portrait

Details

Birthday: June 16, 1942

Deathday: January 15, 2023

Place of birth: Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan region, Iraq

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.