Sesede Terziyan

Sesede Terziyan was born in Nordenham in 1981 and studied at the Ernst Busch Academy of the Dramatic Arts. Her first roles took her to the Deutsches Theater Berlin and the Maxim Gorki Theatre. In 2005 she became a co-founder of the Berlin off-theatre Eigenreich. After an engagement in Göttingen she moved to Berlin as a freelance actress and began to collaborate with the Ballhaus Naunynstraße. In 2010 she performed in Nurkan Erpulat’s production Lö Bal Almanya and Verrücktes Blut and was nominated for Best Actress by the Theater heute journal in 2011. Sesede Terziyan acts regularly in in cinema, film, and television productions, such as Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland (2011), The Cut (2014) by director Fatih Akın, 25 km/h (2018) by Markus Goller, the television series WaPo Berlin (since 2020), the fourth season of Charité (2024), and the cinema production Ganzer Halber Bruder (2025). In 2025, she starred in the Netflix thriller series Die Falle by Isabel Kleefeld. Terziyan has been part of the Gorki ensemble since the 2013/14 season, where she has worked with the directors Nurkan Erpulat, Yael Ronen und Hakan Savaş Mican, among others. She can be seen on stage, among others, in VERRÜCKTES BLUT directed by Nurkan Erpulat, which was invited to the Theatertreffen in 2011, in EIN BERICHT FÜR EINE AKADEMIE directed by Oliver Frljić and in UNSER DEUTSCHLANDMÄRCHEN directed by Hakan Savaş Mican, which was invited to the Theatertreffen in 2025. In the 2025/26 season, she will appear on stage in Hakan Savaş Mican's play BERLIN KARL-MARX-PLATZ and in Lena Brasch's production EAST SIDE STORY – A GERMAN JEWSICAL.


Ph​​​​​oto: Esra Rotthoff