PINAR CIFTCI is born and raised in Oslo, Norway, and is of Kurdish descent. She speaks Norwegian, English, Turkish and German fluently, and has knowledge in French and Kurdish.

She is represented by the international acting agency Actors & Company.

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Ciftci graduated with a BA in theatre production and acting in 2016 from Nord Universitet in Norway. In the summer of 2015, she studied at the William Esper Studio in New York. 

Since 2017, she is working as a journalist, with publications in several Norwegian film, theatre, art and literature magazines and newspapers, such as Rushprint (155 articles), Ny Tid (61 articles) and Periskop (15 articles).

 

She is currently to be seen in the female leading role in the short film I Walked Alone (2023), directed and written by award-winning Simon M. Valentine and Shokat Harjo (NO). 

She had her debut as a playwright with the theatre play Hol, which premiered at Det Norske Teatret in 2023, where she also played the female leading role.