Mehmet Kurtuluş
Mehmet Kurtuluş (born 27 April 1972) is a Turkish-German actor. He is best known for his work with German director Fatih Akin.
Also recorded as Mehmet Kurtulus
Mehmet Kurtuluş
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- Name
- Mehmet Kurtuluş
- Born
- 27 April 1972
- Birthplace
- Uşak, Turkey
- Occupation
- Actor
- Nationality
- Turkey and Germany.
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Key facts
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• Name — Mehmet Kurtuluş • Born — 27 April 1972 • Birthplace — Uşak, Turkey • Years Active — 1993–present • Occupation — Actor
Documentary record
Mehmet Kurtuluş, an actor and narrator, was born on 27 April 1972 in Salzgitter. The birth is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Life and career
Life and career
Kurtuluş 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 film Kurz und schmerzlos (Short Sharp Shock). After his breakthrough he appeared in the successful TV mini-series The 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 Kurtuluş was engaged). Kurtuluş 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. In 2014, he co-starred with Samuel L. Jackson and Ray Stevenson in the Finnish-British action thriller Big Game.
Television
Television
• 1993: Adelheid und ihre Mörder - Hassan • 1995: SK-Babies - Hakan Yassin • 1995: Sterne des Südens - Selçuk • 1996: Doppelter Einsatz - Hakan Yassin • 2004: Love in Saigon - Selçuk • 2007–2012: Tatort - Cenk Batu / Cem Aslan • 2015–2016: Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem - Dervish Pasha • 2018: The Protector - Mazhar Dragusha • 2020–2022: Into the Night - Ayaz Kobanbay • 2024: Testament: The Story of Moses - Pharaoh FBI International S03E05
Life and career
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Life and career
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1972
Mehmet Kurtuluş was born in 1972.
Film
• 1996: Getürkt (Short) - Ilami • 1998: Short Sharp Shock (Kurz und schmerzlos) - Gabriel • 2000: In July - Isa • 2001: The Tunnel - Vittorio 'Vic' Castanza • 2001: Heart (2001 film) - Cem Rüya • 2001: Boran - Deniz Akim • 2002: Naked - Dylan • 2002: Equilibrium - Search Coordinator • 2003: Abdülhamit Düşerken - Sefik Bey • 2004: Head-On (Gegen die Wand) - Barmann Istanbul • 2004: Soundless - Sicherheitschef des Russen • 2007: Pars: Kiraz operasyonu - Atilla Karahan • 2009: Vasha - Artur • 2010: Transfer - Laurin • 2014: Big Game - Hazar • 2014: Head Full of Honey - Dr. Holst • 2015: Famous Five 4 - Farouk • 2015: 8 Seconds - Sami • 2016: Tereddüt - Cem / Sehnaz's Husband • 2017: Schneeflöckchen - Feuer • 2019: Lady Winsley - Fergan • 2019: Abikalypse - Mustis Vater • 2024: Mary - Baba ben Buta
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- “Mehmet Kurtuluş”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q78168: Mehmet Kurtuluş
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Awards
• Locarno International Film Festival 1998: Best Actor for Short Sharp Shock • Grimme-Preis 2001: Short Sharp Shock • Grimme-Preis 2009: Tatort – Auf der Sonnenseite
Gewinner Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis 2015.
Andre Poling · Studio Hamburg
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- 1.Louis Proyect. Probing the Deep State — On TV. CounterPunch. 2015.
- 2.Wiebke Leßmann. Mehmet Kurtulus besucht seine Heimat. 2009.
- 3.Alexandra Ritter. Salzgitters „Tatort“-Kommissar hört auf. Braunschweiger Zeitung. 4 mars 2011.
- 4.Mehmet Kurtulus: „Tatort“-Kommissar Cenk Batu. Bild. 2009.
- 5.Büyük Oyun filmi oyuncuları kimdir? İşte Büyük Oyun konusu ve oyuncuları. Hürriyet. 2020.
- 6.Julia Jüttner. In Deutschland herrscht 'Tatort'-Hysterie. Der Spiegel. 2008.
- 7.Nosbuschs ganz privater Stern. Österreich. 2013.
- 8.New Yorker unterstützt Musische Akademie. Mediabiz.de. 2007.
- 9.„Werde zum ersten Mal singen“. Die Rheinpfalz. 2017.
- 10.An Berlin mag sie das Gemütliche. Westdeutsche Zeitung. 2007.
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The authorities additionally record the heading Mehmet Kurtulus. His recorded languages were German and Turkish. He married Désirée Nosbusch.
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