Türkiz Talay

Türkiz Talay ( born April 8, 1974 in Berlin ) is a German actress of Turkish descent.

Türkiz Talay began at a young age with acting ( Rappelkiste ) and moderated at the age of 15 years, the German film magazine tips not only for kids. Her breakthrough came in 1995 with the RTL - crime series SK- Babies, in which they, the Turkish-born cop Nesrin Üstünkaya embodied for a total of 48 episodes. Then Türkiz had guest roles in many series such as Against the Wind (1997), The School at Sea ( 1996 and 1997), The Commissioner (1998), or on your own risk ( 1999).

In 2002 she played her first leading role in the turbulent romantic comedy All getürkt beside Hilmi Sözer and Bürger Lars Dietrich. From 2004 to 2005 Türkiz Talay was seen as a surgeon, Dr. Demirel in the final season of Sat.1 series Alpha Team. In 2005, she stood for the action comedy hammer and hard beside Susan Sideropoulos and Hendrik Duryn front of the camera. After that, she made ​​guest appearances on the award-winning German - Turkish for Beginners series and in the sketch comedy Germany is beautiful next to Volker Michalowski Zack. 2008 Türkiz took a lead role in the movie Ayla, who was nominated for the Max Ophüls Prize 2010.

In addition to her acting career Türkiz completed a policy studies at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University Berlin Berlin, which she completed in 2002 with the diploma. Her thesis on the subject of the 2nd generation Turks in German television productions - a continuation of stereotypical roles? is a pioneer work in this hitherto little explored field of representation of migrants in the media.

Since the common shooting all faked (2002) Türkiz Talay is romantically involved with the musician and comedian Bürger Lars Dietrich and lives with him in Berlin. Their son was born in 2007, her little daughter came in the spring of 2011 to the world.