Belcim Bilgin, born in Ankara, was upon completion of her High School education at the Mehmet Emin Resulzade Anatolian Lycee, selected for admission to the Ankara Art Theatre, where she studied until 2001. Leaving in the middle of a degree in information management at Hacettepe University, she travelled to Paris for the post-production of director Hiner Saleem’s first film, Kilometer Zero. While working on the film in Paris, she also received instruction in the French language at the Sorbonne School of Languages. In 2005, Kilometer Zero was released and entered in the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, as well as a number of other festivals.

After her second film Dol ou la Vallée Tambours was released in 2006, Belcim Bilgin returned to Turkey where she acted in a TV series named Hatırla Sevgili (Remember Beloved) and in a movie named Güz Sancısı (Pains of Autumn), directed by Tomris Giritlioğlu. Under the 2010 European Capital of Culture program, she worked, with the director Hany Abu-Assad, on the Unutma Beni İstanbul (Forget Me Not Istanbul) project consisting of six short films and, subsequently, took on the role of Deniz in the film Aşk Tesadüfleri Sever (Love “Just a Coincidence”), directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak and released in the February of 2011. Towards the end of 2011, she took on the role of Zilha in the ongoing series based on Haldun Taner’s immortal oeuvre Keşanlı Ali Destanı (the Legend of Keşanlı Ali) directed by Çağan Irmak.

Playing the role of psychologist Eylem in the film, released in January 2012, Kurtuluş Son Durak (Last Stop: Kurtuluş), an entertaining women’s story with a message against violence of all kinds, Belçim Bilgin then acted alongside such names as the leading actress Monica Bellucci and Yılmaz Erdoğan in the Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi’s film, scheduled for release in 2012, entitled Gergedan Mevsimi (Rhino Season). She has also worked in the film as the executive producer. Belcim Bilgin took the leading role in Rezan Yeşilbaş"s short film Sessiz / Be Deng, which has received the Palm d"Or for Best Short Film at 65th Cannes Film Festival. Most recently she has been working for her upcoming film “Kelebeğin Rüyası", which was set in 1940s Turkey, recounting the lives of Zonguldak-based authors Rüştü Onur and Muzaffer Tayyip Uslu.