[1] She was born in 1896 to Ahmet Şekip Bey, a prosecutor from profession, and his wife Emine in Kadıköy, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire.

[1][3] Bedia Muvahhit was employed in 1914 as a switchboard operator at the state-owned telephone company in Istanbul becoming one of the first Muslim women in the Ottoman Empire to work at the public service sector.

[1] Following a campaign of a newly established journal and an association for defending women's rights, the post administration decided to replace the telephone operators, who were in the beginning foreign language speaking girls from Christian or Jewish minorities with heavily accented Turkish.

In 1923, soon after her marriage to actor Ahmet Muvahhit, film director Muhsin Ertuğrul, a friend of both, was about to shoot a movie based on the novel Ateşten Gömlek (The Daughter of Smyrna) by Halide Edib Adıvar (1884–1964).

[2][3] Right after the filming of Ateşten Gömlek was finished, she took part in a theatre tour of Darülbedayi in İzmir along with her husband, actor Ahmet Muvahhit.

Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk), who was that time also in the city, asked her husband that Bedia Muvahhit performs in the play he would watch, because also Turkish Muslim women have to get to the stage.

On July 31, 1923, just one week after the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne, Bedia Muvahhit debuted on the stage before the new Turkey's leader, who congratulated her after the play.