Deniz Arora was born in 1989 in Hamburg, Germany. The son of an Indian teacher and a Turkish filmmaker, he left Hamburg after completing high school to work at the IKSV, a film, theater & jazz film festival in Istanbul, and to shoot his first short film. After that he moved to Vienna to study drama at the MUK- Musik und Kunstuniversität der Stadt Wien and completed his studies in 2017 with the Bachelor of Arts. Arora is living in Berlin and is working as an actor in film & TV and as an independent filmmaker.