Asli Bayram is a German actress and model of Turkish descent, who is best known for being Miss Germany in 2005. Aslı Bayram completed actors training with Eric Morris, Los Angeles, and Anne Mertin, Vienna. In 2005 she became the first Miss Germany with Turkish roots and hence attended the Miss Universe contest in Bangkok. In October 2007, Aslı Bayram premiered with great success in the solo theater performance Anne Frank: The Diary at the Théatre de la Ville D’Esch in Luxembourg. The first international film she acted was Jump! with Patrick Swayze. Ensuing, she appeared in a very prominent role in the black comedy Shortcut to Hollywood, shot in USA and successfully presented at the Berlinale Film Festival 2009. The Hollywood Reporter praised her performance in the film “180”: "Asli Bayram in a very few scenes delivers a heartbreaking portrait of a young woman navigating between two worlds while living in neither of them".