Born in Germany, Sema Şimşek returned to Turkey with her family at the age of 8. She took up modeling at high school before she started her undergraduate studies at Mimar Sinan University. She was the winner of the Best Model Turkey 1994, ranking 4th in Best Model Turkey 1995. She strolled the podium in Fashion Week Paris in 1998, during Jean Louis Scherrer’s fashion show. She appeared in TV serials such as Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu (Valley of the Wolves – Ambush) and the movie Dabbe VI (The Creeper). She supports, with her visage, the UNDP brand ‘Argande’ since the very beginning. Sema Şimşek is the mother of her only son, Rüzgar.