---
name: "Aylin Tezel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/aylin-tezel"
fi1m_id: "aylin-tezel"
imdb_id: "nm2521682"
tmdb_id: 502397
wikidata_id: "Q125750"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 November 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-23T21:13:21.572720+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Aylin Tezel

## Identity

Aylin Tezel

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/aylin-tezel
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** aylin-tezel
- **IMDb ID:** nm2521682
- **TMDB ID:** 502397
- **Wikidata ID:** Q125750
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aylin_Tezel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125750, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2521682/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/502397

Actor. Born 29 November 1983 in Bünde, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 November 1983, Bünde, Germany
- **Active:** 2023–present
- **Berlin International Film Festival:** 1 Berlin prize (1 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aylin_Tezel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125750, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2521682/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/502397

## Coming up

- *Wochenendrebellen 2* (2027-09-23), as Fatime

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Scrapper*](https://film.one/film/scrapper.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Aylin Tezel is a German actress, writer and director. Born in Bünde in 1983, she trained at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin before leaving to take on screen roles. She had her breakthrough with the lead role of Canan in Yasemin Şamdereli’s *Almanya – Welcome to Germany* (2011), which premiered in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival.

On television she played series regular Nora Dalay in the long-running German police drama *Tatort* from 2012 to 2020 and appeared as resistance fighter Zosia in season three of the Canadian series *X Company* (2015). Film roles include Gökçe in *7500* (2019) opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Nina in Charlotte Regan’s *Scrapper* (2023).

Tezel made her feature directorial debut with *Falling Into Place* (2023), which she also wrote and starred in as Kira. The film premiered at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, filmportal.de, curtisbrown.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Scrapper* (2023), Fi1m 72, as Nina — [page](https://film.one/film/scrapper.md)

## Complete filmography (48)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Wochenendrebellen 2* (2027), as Fatime
- *Serial Cleaner* (2026), series, as Teri Marquard — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/tv/serial-cleaner.md)
- *Falling into Place* (2023), as Kira · Director, Writer, Screenplay
- *Weekend Rebels* (2023), as Fatime
- *Scrapper* (2023), as Nina — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/scrapper.md)
- *All Russians Love Birch Trees* (2022), as Mascha
- *Unbroken* (2021), series, as Alexandra Enders
- *Phoenix* (2020), Director, Writer
- *7500* (2019), as Gökçe
- *Der Club der singenden Metzger* (2019), series, Actor
- *The Master Butcher* (2019), as Delphine
- *Die Informantin - Der Fall Lissabon* (2019), as Aylin
- *One Man's Happiness* (2018), as Anja Manz
- *Lost in the Living* (2018), as Sabine
- *The Yellow Birds* (2018), as Claudia
- *Little Miss Dolittle* (2018), as Vanessa
- *Reformation* (2017), series, as Ottilie
- *Die Informantin* (2016), as Aylin
- *Robinson Crusoe* (2016), as Stachelschwein Epi (voice)
- *Macho Man* (2015), as Aylin Denizoglu
- *Shades of Guilt* (2015), series, as Jana
- *X Company* (2015), series, as Zosia
- *Paare* (2015), series, Actor
- *To Life!* (2014), as Emily
- *Coming In* (2014), as Heidi
- *Kleine Schiffe* (2013), as Lilli
- *Doc meets Dorf* (2013), series, as Bonnie
- *Tanz mit ihr* (2013), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Move* (2012), as Maria
- *Breaking Horizons* (2012), as Lara
- *Luks Glück* (2012), as Gül Seven
- *Rhinos* (2012), as Ingrid
- *Aschenputtel* (2011), as Aschenputtel
- *Ameisen gehen andere Wege* (2011), Actor
- *Homeland* (2011), series, as Amena — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/homeland.md)
- *Trust Me It Works* (2011), Director
- *Almanya: Welcome to Germany* (2011), as Canan
- *Bis aufs Blut* (2010), as Sina
- *Riss* (2010), as Denise
- *A Houseful of Animals* (2010), series, as Reitlehrerin Maria Götz
- *Sui tuoi passi* (2009), Actor
- *Giacomo Puccini – Die dunkle Seite des Mondes* (2008), as Corinna
- *Unschuld* (2008), Actor
- *Bis dass der Tod uns scheidet* (2008), as Marie Walsen
- *Hamburg Dockland* (2007), series, as Swantje Oswald
- *Bloch* (2002), series, as Dalia Feisal
- *A Case For Two* (1981), series, as Lale
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Nora Dalay, Selda Özkan

## Gallery

- ![Aylin Tezel](https://film.one/media/person/15994/gallery-3889162d175d.jpg) Aylin Tezel — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/MKr350512_Aylin_Tezel_%28NRW-Empfang%2C_Berlinale_2024%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-MKr350512_Aylin_Tezel_%28NRW-Empfang%2C_Berlinale_2024%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kriminaloberkommissarin Nora Dalay (Aylin Tezel). (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/15994/gallery-788b6753f851.jpg) Kriminaloberkommissarin Nora Dalay (Aylin Tezel). (2012) — Ulli Weber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/120305-uw00847.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis 2012](https://film.one/media/person/15994/gallery-2784cbccf532.jpg) Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis 2012 — Martina Nolte, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/2012-05-31_Studio_Hamburg_Nachwuchspreis_DSCF0536.jpg/1280px-2012-05-31_Studio_Hamburg_Nachwuchspreis_DSCF0536.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis 2012](https://film.one/media/person/15994/gallery-01a9c4f2c4b6.jpg) Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis 2012 — Martina Nolte, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/2012-05-31_Studio_Hamburg_Nachwuchspreis_DSCF0536_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-2012-05-31_Studio_Hamburg_Nachwuchspreis_DSCF0536_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Aylin Tezel](https://film.one/media/person/15994/gallery-b1daf31728f5.jpg) Aylin Tezel — Image via TMDB
- ![Aylin Tezel](https://film.one/media/person/15994/gallery-8e4e2e365605.jpg) Aylin Tezel — Image via TMDB
- ![Aylin Tezel](https://film.one/media/person/15994/gallery-4f618a6acfea.jpg) Aylin Tezel — Image via TMDB
- ![Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis 2012](https://film.one/media/person/15994/gallery-a01c0028678c.jpg) Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis 2012 — Martina Nolte, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/2012-05-31_Studio_Hamburg_Nachwuchspreis_DSCF0537.jpg/1280px-2012-05-31_Studio_Hamburg_Nachwuchspreis_DSCF0537.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis 2012](https://film.one/media/person/15994/gallery-67385ec09ced.jpg) Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis 2012 — Martina Nolte, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/2012-05-31_Studio_Hamburg_Nachwuchspreis_DSCF0538.jpg/1280px-2012-05-31_Studio_Hamburg_Nachwuchspreis_DSCF0538.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Aylin Tezel](https://film.one/media/person/15994/gallery-bf06150538e3.jpg) Aylin Tezel — Image via TMDB
- ![Aylin Tezel](https://film.one/media/person/15994/gallery-0afc957c5469.jpg) Aylin Tezel — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Berlin International Film Festival — 1 won

- 2024: Berliner Bär (won)

### Other awards — 4 won, 1 nominated

- German Television Award for the Best Actress 2021: German Television Award for the Best Actress (nominated), for *Unbroken*
- Bavarian TV Awards 2020: Bavarian TV Awards (won), for *The Master Butcher*
- Deutscher Schauspielerpreis 2015 2015: Deutscher Schauspielerpreis 2015 (won), for *Kleine Schiffe*
- Deutscher Schauspielerpreis 2015 2014: Deutscher Schauspielerpreis 2015 (won), for *Kleine Schiffe*
- Askania Shooting Star Award 2013: Askania Shooting Star Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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