[1] Kodja was born in Brussels, Belgium, on 6 February 1984 to a father of Russian-Turkish descent and a Belgian mother.

[1] She began her artistic training in Waterloo, Belgium with music (piano, violin, flute) and drama.

She was able to stand up to Charlotte de Turckheim in La Permission, and play the leading female role alongside Gerard Jugnot in The Law of Alexander.

Hande Kodja was also the voice of Lisbeth Salander in the radio adaptations of Millenium for France Culture.

Recently she just finished a movie about Van Gogh and another Belgian comedy "Music Hole"