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Mehmet Kurtuluş
Acting
Born: 1972
Uşak, Turkey
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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.
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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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Known For
Mordach - Tod in den Bergen
Cuma Ozan
2023 · DE
FBI: International
Mehdi Esfandiari
2021 · US
Into the Night
Ayaz
2020 · BE
The Protector
Mazhar Dragusha
2018 · TR
Magnificent Century: Kösem
Derviş Paşa
2015 · TR
So gesehen – Talk am Sonntag
Self
2011 · DE
Odysso - Wissen entdecken
himself
2007 · DE
Abendschau
Self
2000 · DE
Full Credits
| Show / Title | Year | Credit / Role |
|---|---|---|
| Mordach - Tod in den Bergen | 2023 | Cuma Ozan |
| FBI: International | 2021 | Mehdi Esfandiari |
| Into the Night | 2020 | Ayaz |
| The Protector | 2018 | Mazhar Dragusha |
| Magnificent Century: Kösem | 2015 | Derviş Paşa |
| So gesehen – Talk am Sonntag | 2011 | Self |
| Odysso - Wissen entdecken | 2007 | himself |
| Abendschau | 2000 | Self |
| Tietjen und Bommes | 1997 | Self |
| DAS! | 1991 | Contributor |
| NDR Talk Show | 1979 | Self |
| Kölner Treff | 1976 | Self |
| Scene of the Crime | 1970 | Cenk Batu |
| Grimme Award | 1964 | Self |