Born in Hamburg, Nermin Çelik graduated from the Charlottenburg Acting School, Berlin, under the direction of Valentin Platareanu. While still a student, she made her debut at the Jewish Theater Schachar in Hamburg, where she played her first leading role as Esther in Gojim (2002). This was followed by smaller engagements, including at the Berlin State Opera under the direction of Adriana Altaras in HypOp II (2003). In the theater production Schwarze Jungfrauen (2006), written by Feridun Zaimoğlu and Günter Senkel, which made it onto the cover of Theater Heute and was voted among the best plays in 2007, she plays the much-discussed role of the student. In the same year she started filming the documentary Das perfekte Demoband, production Corduafilm, as a writer and director.