Sema Meray (born 26 February 1968) is a Turkish actress and author. Born in

Mersin Mersin (), also known as İçel, is a large city and a port on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey. It is the provincial capital of Mersin Province, Mersin (İçel) Province. It is made up of four municipalities and dis ...

, Turkey, Meray grew up in Germany. She became known to a wider audience when she took over the role of Helga Schrader in the WDR TV series '' Die Anrheiner'' in 1998. She retained this role until 2003. She is occasionally seen in Lindenstraße as Aunt Hatice. Meray also works as a theatre actress, as an author and in lipsyncing. In February 2008, her theatre performed ''Wegen der Ehre'', along with

Vedat Erincin Vedat Erincin (born 1957, Istanbul) is a German actor of Turkish origin. The co-founder of the Wuppertal-based Wupper-Theater and former head of the Arkadaş Theater, he is dedicated to intercultural theatrical work. His former wife is fellow ...

, directed by Till Rickelt in an outdoor workshop at the Free Workshop of the Cologne Theatre. In this piece, the actress who plays her is her daughter

Lilli Hollunder Lilli Hollunder (born 5 May 1986) is a German actress recently appearing in the American television series ''The Outpost'', filmed in Serbia. Early life Lilli Hollunder's mother is the German-Turkish actress and author Sema Meray, her father i ...

. Meray is also committed to the preservation of the Mor Gabriel Monastery in Turkey. In early 2014, Meray married her partner, Hubertus, Prinz von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, and currently lives with him at Strauweiler Castle in

Odenthal Odenthal is a municipality in the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Odenthal is situated approximately 5 km north of Bergisch Gladbach and 15 km north-east of Cologne. Neighbouring places Nearby ...

in the Bergisches Land.

Filmography (selection)

* 1997: ''

Unter uns ''Unter uns'' (''"Between Us"'') is a German television soap opera, based on the Hungarian soap opera Barátok közt, first broadcast on RTL (German TV channel), RTL on 28 November 1994. It is centered on the lives of the people in a residentia ...

'' * 1999–2003: '' Die Anrheiner'' (recurring) * 2002: ''

Tatort ''Tatort'' ("Crime scene") is a German language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with some 30 feature-length episodes per year, which makes it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by ...

– Schützlinge'' (TV series) * 2003: '' Die Sitte – Flüstertöne'' * 2004: ''

Cologne P.D. Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 million ...

– Tod am Bau'' * 2005–2011: '' In aller Freundschaft'' (recurring) * 2006–2011: '' Lindenstraße'' (recurring) * 2008: ' * 2010: '' Stolberg – Bei Anruf Mord'' * 2010: ''

– Schmale Schultern'' * 2012: '' Storm of Love'' * 2014–2015: ''

Rote Rosen ''Rote Rosen'' (Red Roses) is a German telenovela produced by Studio Hamburg Serienwerft Lüneburg and broadcast by Das Erste since 6 November 2006. The show is a complex telenovela, which tells one love story every season about women in their ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Meray, Sema 1968 births Living people People from Mersin German film actresses German television actresses German stage actresses German people of Turkish descent Turkish emigrants to West Germany People from North Rhine-Westphalia