Background
Gerat is the daughter of a German mother and Turkish father.
Gerat is the daughter of a German mother and Turkish father.
The next year, she placed second in The Look of the Year competition for models. In the mid-nineties, she began working in German television, hosting Heart Attack, Bravo television and Chartbreaker. Gerat began working as an actress in 1997, her first major role being a lead in Caipiranha by Felix Dünnemann.
In addition to film and television roles, Gerat has performed on stage, in Düsseldorf and Hanover.
In 2000, for the movie I Love You, Baby she shaved her head completely onscreen and went bald
Beginning in 2005, she has played the police detective Jale Beck on the crime series SOKO Köln, a role she helped development Beck is, like Gerat, half-Turkish, half-German.
