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Mehmet Kurtuluş

Actor

Mehmet Kurtuluş

Born April 27, 1972 in Uşak, Turkey30 films

Mehmet Kurtuluş is a Turkish actor. He was born in Uşak, Turkey, and moved at the age of 18 months to Germany, where he grew up with his brother, Tekin, in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony.

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He performed several minor television roles in episodes of different TV shows and continued working in theater until his big-screen debut in his main role as the young Turkish boy Gabriel in Fatih Akın's filmKurz und schmerzlos (Short Sharp Shock). After his breakthrough, he appeared in the successful TV mini-series Der Tunnel, of Roland Suso Richter, where he performed alongside Heino Ferch and Nicolette Krebitz. Doris Dörrie chose him for her sex comedy Naked.

He went back to working in television with the love film Eine Liebe in Saigon (Love in Saigon) with Luxembourgian actress Désirée Nosbusch (to whom he is engaged). He played the main detective role in six episodes of the cult German television series Tatort. He announced afterwards that he would be working on international projects.

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Essential films

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Filmography

30 films as actor
  1. TBAA Small MistakeSelim
  2. TBAJuste après l'aube
  3. 2025And The Rest Will FollowLawyer Ahmet Sönmez
  4. 2024MaryBava Ben Buta
  5. 2022The Young Chief WinnetouIntschu-tschuna
  6. 2019AbikalypseMustis Vater
  7. 2019Who Killed Lady Winsley?Fergan
  8. 2017Clair ObscurCem
  9. 2017SnowflakeFeuer
  10. 20158 SecondsSami
  11. 2015Famous Five 4Farouk
  12. 2014Head Full of HoneyDr. Holst
  13. 2014Big GameHazar
  14. 2012Empathy BxRashid
  15. 2010TransferLaurin
  16. 2009VashaArtur
  17. 2007Pars: Operation CherryAtilla Karahan
  18. 2006Eine Liebe in SaigonRobin
  19. 2004SoundlessSicherheitschef des Russen
  20. 2004Head-OnBarmann Istanbul
  21. 2003Abdulhamid FallingBnb. Şefik Bey
  22. 2002EquilibriumSearch Coordinator
  23. 2002NakedDylan
  24. 2002BoranDeniz Akim
  25. 2001HerzCem Rüya
  26. 2001The TunnelVittorio Castanza
  27. 2000In JulyIsa
  28. 1999Versprich mir, dass es den Himmel gibtLouis
  29. 1998Short Sharp ShockGabriel
  30. 1997Getürkt