Haluk Bilginer

Haluk Bilginer

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Born 1954-06-05 İzmir, Turkey 8 credit(s) Popularity 0.9
Nihat Haluk Bilginer (born 5 June 1954) is a Turkish actor. In addition to his acting career in Turkey, he has also worked in the United Kingdom and remains best known for his role as Mehmet Osman in the television soap opera EastEnders during the 1980s. He has also starred in Hollywood movies as a minor actor. He played a villainous guerrilla leader in the 1987 comedy film Ishtar and a Turkish Mafioso in the 2001 da...
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Nihat Haluk Bilginer (born 5 June 1954) is a Turkish actor. In addition to his acting career in Turkey, he has also worked in the United Kingdom and remains best known for his role as Mehmet Osman in the television soap opera EastEnders during the 1980s. He has also starred in Hollywood movies as a minor actor. He played a villainous guerrilla leader in the 1987 comedy film Ishtar and a Turkish Mafioso in the 2001 dark comedy film Buffalo Soldiers. In 2018, he played Doctor Sartain in Halloween and in 2023 he starred as the lead in the TV series The Turkish Detective.

For his role in Şahsiyet (2018), Bilginer won the Best Actor award at the 47th International Emmy Awards.

Known For

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The Eighth Family poster
The Eighth Family
2025-11-19
Lovers & Liars poster
Lovers & Liars
as Kadir
2025-10-12
The Turkish Detective poster
The Turkish Detective
as Çetin İkmen
2023-12-15
El-Gomgoma El-Sakhena poster
El-Gomgoma El-Sakhena
as Haluk
2022-12-02
Wild Abandon poster
Wild Abandon
as Berhudar
2022-03-30
Baba poster
Baba
as Emin Saruhanlı
2022-02-15
Şeref Bey poster
Şeref Bey
as Şeref
2021-01-01
Alex Rider poster
Alex Rider
as Dr. Greif
2020-11-12

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