Uygar Tamer

Uygar Tamer (born 1971 in Ankara, Turkey ) is a Turkish-Swiss actress and singer.

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 2018: Tatort: Die Musik stirbt zuletzt (Tatort: The Music Dies Last) – ONE-TAKE – Director: Dani Levy, TV series, SRF 2021: Wo ist die Liebe hin (Where Has Love Gone) (TV film) 2022: Das Lehrerzimmer (The Teachers' Room) (Feature film) – Director: İlker Çatak 2022: Kommt ein Vogel geflogen (A Bird Comes Flying) – Director: Christian Werner

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