Mehmet Kurtuluş
Actor
- Born
- April 27, 1972 (age 54) · Uşak, Turkey
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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Known for
Equilibrium
December 6, 2002
Big Game
September 5, 2014
Head-On
March 11, 2004
Head Full of Honey
December 25, 2014
In July
August 23, 2000
Mary
December 12, 2024
The Tunnel
January 21, 2001
Short Sharp Shock
October 15, 1998
Snowflake
September 14, 2017
Famous Five 4
January 29, 2015
Clair Obscur
December 7, 2017
Naked
September 2, 2002
Acting30
- 2026Just After Dawn as Jackson
- 2025And The Rest Will Follow as Lawyer Ahmet Sönmez
- 2024Mary as Bava Ben Buta
- 2022The Young Chief Winnetou as Intschu-tschuna
- 2019Abikalypse as Mustis Vater
- 2019Who Killed Lady Winsley? as Fergan
- 2017Clair Obscur as Cem
- 2017Snowflake as Feuer
- 20158 Seconds as Sami
- 2015Famous Five 4 as Farouk