
Acting
Apr 18, 1995
Berlin, Germany
Gizem Emre
Acting
Biography
Gizem Emre, born on May 22, 1995, in Berlin-Kreuzberg, is a German actress and model. The daughter of Kurdish parents from Turkey, she discovered her passion for acting while still in school. At the age of 17, she applied to an acting agency and began her career with minor roles. She achieved her breakthrough in 2013 with the role of Zeynep in the successful film series *Fack ju Göhte*. She reprised this role in the sequels *Fack ju Göhte 2* and *Fack ju Göhte 3*, as well as in the spin-off *Chantal im Märchenland* (2024). Since 2014, she has played the lead role of Commissioner Dana Wegener in the television series *Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei*, appearing in over 50 episodes through 2022. In addition to her work in Germany, Gizem Emre has also gained international experience, including a role in the US series *Homeland* and a Turkish-language role in the series *Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem*.
Feature Films (17)

Chantal, an influencer with no followers, and her best friend Zeynep end up in a fairytale world thanks to an antique magic mirror that they think is a social media gimmick. The marriage-mad princes didn't expect such a badass princess. Thanks to her ghetto skills, Chantal does away with reactionary fairytale clichés, fights against curses and tyrannical kings - and, above all, fights for her friendship with Zeynep.
Chantal in Fairyland

During a trip to Berlin, a young Amish in the middle of a rite of passage reconnects with his roots, explores other ways of life, falls in love — and faces a big decision.
Rumspringa

Mark's life couldn't be better. He runs a cool beach bar with his partner Peer, is happy with his beautiful girlfriend Greta, has all the freedom - and no children to make his existence hell! But that suddenly changes when Mark is caught up in an old sin of his youth. As a student he donated his seeds and now 99 of his offspring want to get to know him...
Super-Dad

A man sees the dark side of the time-manipulating biotech company he works for when a crushing debt forces his wife to give up 40 years of her own life.
Paradise

Because they got into a fight with party animal and mayoral candidate Benny Jagschitz, Flo Kienzl was thrown out of the police and Eddi Kovac went to jail. Now Eddi is on probation, just about to start a new life, when Flo stands on the mat: worn out, clever and with a really good reason.
Pulled Pork

Eva is a passionate teacher. After the death of her mother, she tries to find a new direction in life. Then Sevda, a Turkish girl, joins her class. She is smart, self-confident and wears a headscarf out of conviction. She demands her right to religious freedom without restriction. Rolf, the principal of the grammar school, believes that peace at school is at risk and wants to ban Sevda from wearing the headscarf. Eva, on the other hand, wants to take the more sustainable path and persuade her. But then the conflict at the school comes to a head.
Die Neue

15-year-old Nike is torn between her wish of belonging to the cool clique around her friend Jess and individual autonomy, which to her is represented by her new friend Lea. When she takes Lea along to a party she does not know how to react to the competing friends - resulting in her not reacting at all. - The film deals with mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion the disorientation of young girls, whose identities are rather theatrically claimed then actually realized – a Brechtian teen drama.
As If We Were Somebody Else

A rowdy teacher accompanies a class trip to Thailand to recover some diamonds accidentally sent there and restore the school's reputation.
Suck Me Shakespeer 2

Kenan and Lissi live side by side in a semi-detached house in Munich - and yet in different worlds. He is an order-loving bourgeois who doesn't tolerate a speck of dust in his house and devotes himself meticulously to growing roses in the garden. No wonder that she, a best-selling author and life artist, has very little to do with the philistine next door. There is only one thing that connects them: Lissi is the landlady of Kenan's semi-detached house.
Zaun an Zaun

A bank robber becomes a teacher after being released from prison and finds himself at the center of a number of crazy adventures.
Suck Me Shakespeer 3

Lawyer Dimitrios Schulze works in the Jungbusch district of Mannheim and helps anyone who has problems with the police and justice system. He also supports his mother and sister in the grocery store. While district police officer Sultan Cakmak shows unshakable loyalty to law and order, for Schulze, humanity and feeling are in the foreground. For this reason, he tries by all means to protect his clients from the judge Dr. To protect Eszter Petöfi.
Dimitrios Schulze

Ex-con Zeki Müller goes undercover as a teacher at a below average Gymnasium to find money he'd stashed prior to incarceration.
Suck Me Shakespeer
Television & Series (10)

A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police

Practical semester at the Halle/Saale Police College: Finally out of the seminar rooms and into real life - which for the students means: real murder cases. With the support of their trainers in the homicide squad, they will have to solve this. The beginners sometimes overshoot the mark, make mistakes and have to learn new things on their way to becoming fully qualified detectives. In each episode, a case between the university and real life is dissected, discussed and solved, while the private complications of the students, lecturers and trainers are not neglected.
Rookies

Felix Winterberg is the great-great-grandson of the famous Albert Einstein and himself a recognized physics genius. Because of a deadly hereditary disease, the brilliant researcher only has a few years left - which he wants to make as labor-intensive as possible thanks to various illegal stimulants.





