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Mehmet Kurtuluş

Mehmet Kurtuluş

Birthday: 1972-04-27 | Place of Birth: Uşak, Türkiye

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 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 Kurtuluş is 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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
The Young Chief Winnetou

as    Intschu-tschuna

2020
Into the Night

as    Ayaz

2019
Who Killed Lady Winsley?

as    Fergan

2019
Abikalypse

as    Mustis Vater

2015
Big Game

as    Hazar

2015
8 Saniye

as    Sami

2012
Empathy Bx

as    Rashid

2010
Transfer

as    Laurin

2009
Vasha

as    Artur

2004
Head-On

as    Barmann Istanbul

2004
Soundless

as    Sicherheitschef des Russen

2002
Naked

as    Dylan

2000
In July

as    Isa

1998
Short Sharp Shock

as    Gabriel