Mehmet Kurtuluş
30 movies · 11 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 27, 1972 (age 54)
- Place of birth
- 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.
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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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Mehmet Kurtuluş: movies and TV shows
Acting (41)
- Upcoming
- Upcoming A Small Mistake
as Selim
- 2025 And The Rest Will Follow
as Lawyer Ahmet Sönmez
- 2024 Mary
as Bava Ben Buta
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022 The Young Chief Winnetou
as Intschu-tschuna
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019 Abikalypse
as Mustis Vater
- 2019 Who Killed Lady Winsley?
as Fergan
- 2018
- 2017 Clair Obscur
as Cem
- 2017 Snowflake
as Feuer
- 2017
- 2015
- 2015
- 2015 8 Seconds
as Sami
- 2015 Famous Five 4
as Farouk
- 2014 Head Full of Honey
as Dr. Holst
- 2014 Big Game
as Hazar
- 2012 Empathy Bx
as Rashid
- 2010 Transfer
as Laurin
- 2009 Vasha
as Artur
- 2007 Pars: Operation Cherry
as Atilla Karahan
- 2006 Eine Liebe in Saigon
as Robin
- 2004 Soundless
as Sicherheitschef des Russen
- 2004 Head-On
as Barmann Istanbul
- 2003 Abdulhamid Falling
as Bnb. Şefik Bey
- 2002 Equilibrium
as Search Coordinator
- 2002 Naked
as Dylan
- 2002 Boran
as Deniz Akim
- 2001 Herz
as Cem Rüya
- 2001 The Tunnel
as Vittorio Castanza
- 2000 In July
as Isa
- 1999
- 1998 Short Sharp Shock
as Gabriel
- 1997
- 1996
- 1993
- 1970
Behind the camera (1)
- 2004 Head-On
Producer
Talk shows and appearances (8)
- 2011 So gesehen – Talk am Sonntag
1 episode
- 2007 Odysso - Wissen entdecken
1 episode
- 2000 Abendschau
1 episode
- 1997 Tietjen und Bommes
1 episode
- 1991 DAS!
1 episode
- 1979 NDR Talk Show
1 episode
- 1976 Kölner Treff
1 episode
- 1964 Grimme Award
2 episodes