Devrim Lingnau was born in
Mannheim,
Germany to a Turkish father and a German mother and grew up bilingual. During school she studied
ballet and attended the Academy of Dance at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim. At the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, she began studying art under German artist
Ulla von Brandenburg. In 2014 she was in a feature film of the
ZDF television series
Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst (File Number XY...unsolved). From 2014 to 2015, she had a recurring role as Yasemin in the young adult mystery series
Fluch des Falken on
Bavarian Radio and roles on the children's channel
KiKA. In the 2017 German television mini-series,
Under Suspicion: Lost Security by ZDF and
Arte, she played the Turkish-German Aleyna Kara, directed by Andreas Herzog. In the episode "Kinderkram" of the ARD series
Die Kanzlei she was seen in an episode role as Tonja in 2018. After graduating from high school in 2017 from the Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Gymnasium in
Mannheim-Neckarau she starred in the 2019 British film
Carmilla alongside
Jessica Raine,
Hannah Rae and
Tobias Menzies, in which she played the title role. The film premiered at the
Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2019. In 2021 she starred in the German TV film
Borga by York-Fabian Raabe playing opposite
Christiane Paul as her daughter. In December 2020 it was announced that she would take on the title role in the
Netflix series
The Empress about
Empress Elisabeth of Austria alongside Philip Froissant as
Emperor Franz Joseph I. The series was released on September 29, 2022. == Filmography ==