Pinar Karaaslan is a Turkish-Swedish actress based in Amsterdam, working across European film, television and theatre. Born in Adana and having lived and worked across Turkey, Sweden and the Netherlands, she has always moved between cultures, languages and ways of seeing the world. She speaks Turkish, Swedish, English and Dutch, and brings that international perspective naturally into her work.

Pinar started acting as a child in Turkey and continued her career across Europe, developing a practice rooted in curiosity, observation and a deep interest in people. She is drawn to characters with contradictions, inner lives and something at stake, and approaches each role with both instinct and rigorous character work.

Her screen credits include Whatever Happened Down Rio Das Mortes, Hyperactive Neurons, The Pendant, Symbiose and The Lens Flair. Her performance in Lost (2019) earned a Best Actress nomination at the Guara de Ouro Film Festival in Brazil, and Symbiose received the Best Lead Actress award at the Netherlands Film Festival. She has worked with directors including Mijke de Jong, Marco Grandia, Willem Gerritsen and Emma Branderhorst, with upcoming projects including Find Me In The Woods, directed by Jason Gwen, and Milkman, directed by Joseph Frank.

Her training includes Method Acting, Meisner, Chubbuck and the ReFocus Method, with intensive work alongside Paul Haggis and Michael Margotta. Alongside acting, Pinar is a screenwriter and playwright developing original work for stage and screen, and an active voice-over artist working across four languages.

For Pinar, acting is ultimately about understanding people: what they reveal, what they hide, and the space between the two.

She is represented by Sokmen Talent Management in Turkiye and G-Actors Agency internationally.