During high school days she attended the Ankara Arts Theatre and then in Hacettepe University she had part-time vocal training.

She was also a part of a project which was an adaptation of the poems of Atilla İlhan named Ne Kadınlar Sevdim with Enver Aysever as writer.

Acı Aşk ("Bitter Love") in which she co-stars with Halit Ergenç, Cansu Dere and Ezgi Asaroğlu is her first-ever cinematic performance and was released on 18 December 2009.

Songül Öden returned to television in 2011 with the series Umutsuz Ev Kadınları adaptation of Desperate Housewives.

[3] Öden had been a part of a project in the Middle East about disapproval of women and child death in Palestine with eight world stars.