Uygar Tamer (born 1971 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish-Swiss actress and singer.
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Early life and education
Tamer was born in Ankara in 1971. At the age of eleven, she moved to Zurich, where her mother was posted as an attaché. She received her primary education at Turkish, French, and Swiss schools and learned six languages. Tamer trained as an actress from 1996 to 1998 at the European Film Actor School in Zurich.
Alongside her film work, Tamer completed her studies in Social Work at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in 2013. That same year, she starred in the drama-comedy Swiss Heroes by Peter Luisi, playing Bahar, one of the asylum seekers performing Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell." The popular actress received several awards, including the Audience Award at the Locarno Film Festival, the St. Louis International Film Festival, and the Best of Festival Award at the Richmond Film Festival.
Career
Her first role was at the age of ten in the film At by Ali Özgentürk. In 2009, she played the lead role in the French-Canadian-Swiss co-production Dirty Money, L'Infiltré by Dominique Othenin-Girard, which earned her a Quartz award from the Swiss Film Institute in the category of Best Young Actress. In 2010, she appeared in Quantum of Solace as Quantum Member Number 4.
In 2016, Tamer became known to a wider audience through her role in The Victims – Don't Forget Me, the second part of the ARD television film trilogy In the Middle of Germany: NSU about the murder series of the National Socialist Underground (NSU), directed by Züli Aladağ. Tamer played Adile Şimşek, the wife of the first victim Enver Şimşek, and the mother of Kerim and Semiya Şimşek (book: Painful Homeland). For her role in the NSU trilogy In the Middle of Germany, Tamer received the German Acting Award 2017 for Best Supporting Actress. In 2018, she played one of the lead roles in the Tatort episode Die Musik stirbt zuletzt (The Music Dies Last), a one-take film.
Personal life
Tamer lives in Zurich.
Filmography (selection)
1982: At – My Horse (At) – Director: Ali Özgentürk, Feature Film
2000: Cut Away – Director: Eva Marel Jura
2001: Dansöz – Director: Savaş Ay, Feature Film
2002: Ferrari – Director: Nicolo Settegrana
2003: Fairy Tale Prince – Director: Jakob M. Erwa
2008: Dirty Money (Dirty Money, the Infiltrator) – Director: Dominique Othenin-Girard, Feature Film
2008: Quantum of Solace (James Bond 007) – Director: Marc Forster, Feature Film
2012: Fallwind – Director: Bettina Eberhard
2014: Swiss Heroes – Director: Peter Luisi – Audience Award, Locarno Film Festival 2014, Feature Film
2016: The Victims – Don't Forget Me – Part 2 of the NSU Trilogy – Director: Züli Aladağ, TV Film, ARD WDR
2017: Wilder (TV Series) – Director: Pierre Monnard, Series, SRF
2017: Grossstadtrevier – Blood Feud – Director: Nina Wolfrum, TV Series, ARD
2017: The Teacher – Director: Peter Gersina, TV Series, RTL
2018: For My Daughter – Director: Stephan Lacant, TV Film, ZDF
2018: Omar and Us – Director: Mehmet Bahadır Er & Maryna Er Horbatsch
Awards
2010: Swiss Film Award Quartz "Best Young Actress" for Sükran in Dirty Money L'infiltré
2017: German Acting Award 2017 – Best Supporting Actress for NSU: The Victims – Don't Forget Me