Nazmiye Oral began her career working for Dutch Muslim Broadcasting and interviewing figures such as Theo van Gogh and Pim Fortuyn.

[2] In 2016, she won the Golden Calf for Best Acting in a Television Drama for her role playing a concerned mother in One Night Stand.

[2] Oral appeared in the third season of Undercover playing a mafia boss, in 2021.

[5][1] She wrote and performed the play Niet meer zonder jou (No longer without you).

[8] Her parents set up an arranged marriage which she avoided by marrying a Dutch man instead.