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Béla Gabor Lenz was born in Duisburg on November 26, 1997, and grew up in Viersen. He made his stage debut at the age of nine at Duisburg's Theater am Marientor: with a role in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" alongside singer Jasmin "Blümchen" Wagner. Between the ages of 12 and 15, he attended a boarding school for acting in Munich, where he received training in singing and theater in addition to standard lessons. He then returned to Viersen to graduate at the local high school.
Lenz played his first role in front of the camera in the highly acclaimed television film "Die Auserwählte ("The Chosen One", 2014)," which dealt with the abuse cases at the Odenwald School in the late 1970s. Supporting roles followed, including as the son of a murder victim in "Wir - Ihr - Sie" (2016) of the "Tatort" series and as the traumatized son of an accident victim in "Emma nach Mitternacht: Frau Hölle" (2016). He was a regular cast member in the fourth and fifth seasons of the dramedy series "Der Lehrer."
Lenz made his big screen debut in the feature film "Die Körper der Astronauten" ("The Astronauts' Bodies", 2017), which premiered in competition at the Max Ophüls Preis Film Festival. In the film, he played a leading role as one part of a pair of twins who dream of becoming astronauts. He had smaller roles on the big screen in the family drama "1000 Arten Regen zu beschreiben" ("Different Kinds of Rain, 2017) and in the relationship drama "Was gewesen wäre" ("What Might Have Been", 2019).
On television, he played guest lead roles in various crime series, often as a rebellious or delinquent youth, and appeared in TV dramas such as Ben Verbong's "Ein ganz normaler Tag" (2019). Lenz was a regular in the series "Wir sind die Welle" (2019), "Hausen" (2019), in the second season of "Das Boot" (2020) and in "Wild Republic" (2021).
Béla Gabor Lenz played another big screen role in the coming-of-age drama "Albträumer" ("Dark Dreamers", 2020), as a mentally unstable outsider who enters into an ambivalent relationship with the grieving sister (Sarah Mahita) of his dead best friend. At the 2020 Brunswick International Film Festival, Lenz was nominated for the Brunswick Film Award along with Mahita. The film was released theatrically in the summer of 2021.