Demet Gül

Demet Gül — Biography

Demet Gül is an actress who trained on the German stage and reached a wide audience on Turkish television, working in productions of both countries. Turkish viewers know her best as Maşuka in Ulan İstanbul, Tuval in Aşk Laftan Anlamaz and Meryem in Arka Sokaklar. Alongside acting she has also worked as a screenwriter and film producer.

The daughter of Turkish immigrants, she grew up in Stuttgart. She studied at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich and acted in several productions of the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding and the Bavarian State Opera. Her first notable screen step was the young Fatma in Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011). The Turkish chapter of her career began in 2014 with Ulan İstanbul, and in 2016 Show TV's Aşk Laftan Anlamaz, in which she appeared with Hande Erçel and Burak Deniz, gave her a breakthrough.

Later she played Sevda in Maide'nin Altın Günü, Meryem in Arka Sokaklar from 2018, Hacer in Akrep in 2020 and Türkan in Annenin Sırrıdır Çocuk in 2022. She also appeared in the films Küçük Esnaf and Dünya Hali, and in 2024 in the BluTV series Prens and in Bahar. She uses Gül as her stage surname in place of her birth surname, Büyükkol.