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.

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 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.

Filmography Film 1996: Getürkt (Short) - Ilami 1998: Short Sharp Shock (Kurz und schmerzlos) - Gabriel 2000: In July - Isa 2001: The Tunnel - Vittorio 'Vic' Castanza 2001: - 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: - 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

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

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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