Almila Bağrıaçık

Almila Bağrıaçık — Biography

German film and television account for most of the career of Almila Bağrıaçık, a Turkish actress based in Germany. Her defining roles are Amara Hamady in the award-winning Berlin crime drama 4 Blocks and commissioner Mila Sahin in the Kiel episodes of Tatort; in Türkiye she became known as Filiz in Hayat Şarkısı.

She was born in Ankara, and her parents, who were journalists, moved to Berlin in 1995, so she grew up speaking German and Turkish. In 2008 a photographer spotted her at a club in Kreuzberg and invited her to audition, and she won the role of Rana in Feo Aladag's Separation (When We Leave), which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. She went on to roles in German series such as Der Kriminalist, Notruf Hafenkante, Großstadtrevier and Der Alte, and played Arzu in 300 Worte Deutsch. Her first major film lead came in 2015 with Hördur, which earned her a best actress nomination from the German film critics' association; the same year she played investigator Jale Cengiz in Kommissar Pascha.

In 2016 she portrayed Semiya Şimşek in Die Opfer – Vergesst mich nicht. From 2017 she appeared in Tatort alongside Axel Milberg, and Nur eine Frau and the Netflix series Die Kaiserin followed. On stage she has worked at Berlin's Hebbel am Ufer and the Schauspielhaus Bochum.