[1][2] Devrim Lingnau was born in Mannheim, Germany to a Turkish father and a German mother[3][4] and grew up bilingual.
[4][5] During school she studied ballet and attended the Academy of Dance at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim.
In the 2017 German television mini-series, Under Suspicion: Lost Security by ZDF and Arte, she played the Turkish-German Aleyna Kara, directed by Andreas Herzog.
After graduating from high school in 2017 from the Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Gymnasium in Mannheim-Neckarau[8] she starred in the 2019 British film Carmilla alongside Jessica Raine, Hannah Rae and Tobias Menzies, in which she played the title role.
In 2021 she starred in the German TV film Borga by York-Fabian Raabe playing opposite Christiane Paul as her daughter.