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Mehmet Kurtuluş

Profession
Acting
Born
April 27, 1972 · 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

Known for

Equilibrium poster
Equilibrium
Film · 2002 · ★ 7.1
Big Game poster
Big Game
Film · 2014 · ★ 5.5
Head-On poster
Head-On
Film · 2004 · ★ 7.5
Into the Night poster
Into the Night
Series · 2020 · ★ 7.1
The Protector poster
The Protector
Series · 2018 · ★ 7.2
Magnificent Century: Kösem poster
Magnificent Century: Kösem
Series · 2015 · ★ 7.7
Head Full of Honey poster
Head Full of Honey
Film · 2014 · ★ 7.3
In July poster
In July
Film · 2000 · ★ 7.2
FBI: International poster
FBI: International
Series · 2021 · ★ 7.5
Mary poster
Mary
Film · 2024 · ★ 6.3
Scene of the Crime poster
Scene of the Crime
Series · 1970 · ★ 6.2
The Tunnel poster
The Tunnel
Film · 2001 · ★ 7.2

Filmography