Mehmet Kurtuluş
Known For
Acting
Born
1972-04-27 in Uşak, Turkey
Biography
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. 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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most Known For
Scene of the Crime
as Cenk Batu
Scene of the Crime
as Cem Aslan
FBI: International
as Mehdi Esfandiari
DAS!
NDR Talk Show
as Self
Abendschau
as Self
Grimme Award
as Self
Kölner Treff
as Self
Magnificent Century: Kösem
as Derviş Paşa
The Protector
as Mazhar Dragusha
Adelheid und ihre Mörder
as Hassan
Big Game
as Hazar
Testament: The Story of Moses
as Pharaoh
Tietjen und Bommes
as Self
Into the Night
as Ayaz
Clair Obscur
as Cem
Boran
as Deniz Akim
Soundless
as Sicherheitschef des Russen
Herz
as Cem Rüya
Mary
as Bava Ben Buta