A Turkish-German actress, born on December 6, 1965, in Istanbul, Turkey. She moved from Istanbul to Cologne at the age of four. After she graduated from high school in Cologne, she studied for four years at the Hochschule für Musik Saar in Saarbrücken. She started her artistic career in 1992 and is best known for We Might As Well Be Dead (2022), Tehran Taboo (2017), and Five Years (2013).