Eray Eğilmez was born in Aydin in 1976 and grew up in Duisburg Rheinhausen. He came to Berlin when he was 12 years old. He completed his acting studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg in 2003 and was initially engaged at the Berliner Ensemble. He then appeared in the primetime comedy show Happy Friday on SAT 1, alongside Martina Hill. After various other TV appearances, Eray Eğilmez performed for four years in New York and Berlin with the Blue Man Group. In recent years he has appeared in the cinema productions 5 Jahre Leben, Ummah-Unter Freunden and the ongoing ARD series Die Lottokönige. In the post theater production Jobs im Himmel he was on stage as Steve Jobs and at Heimathafen Neukölln with the Asyl-Monologen.