As a child, he spent the summer with his family in Morocco and attended the Annie Heuser Waldorf School in Wilmersdorf.

[6] Sakraya took over the leading role in the film Kalte Füße at the beginning of 2018, directed by Wolfgang Groos, starring along Heiner Lauterbach and Sonja Gerhardt.

[9] 2019 Sakraya played JC in the new international Netflix drama series Warrior Nun, created by Simon Barry.

[11] During the summer of 2020 he shot the film Die Rettung der uns bekannten Welt directed by Til Schweiger, taking the lead role.

[14] In the same year, Fatih Akin’s feature film Rheingold was released, in which Sakraya played the lead role of gangsta rapper Xatar.