Mehmet Kurtuluş
Acting • Born 1972-04-27
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. 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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography
49 credits
Short Sharp Shock
Movie • 1998
Gabriel
Naked
Movie • 2002
Dylan
The Tunnel
Movie • 2001
Vittorio Castanza
In July
Movie • 2000
Isa
Pars: Operation Cherry
Movie • 2007
Atilla Karahan
Transfer
Movie • 2010
Laurin
Getürkt
Movie • 1997
Herz
Movie • 2001
Cem Rüya
Vasha
Movie • 2009
Artur
Big Game
Movie • 2014
Hazar
Eine Liebe in Saigon
Movie • 2006
Robin
Head Full of Honey
Movie • 2014
Dr. Holst
8 Seconds
Movie • 2015
Sami
Versprich mir, dass es den Himmel gibt
Movie • 1999
Louis
Snowflake
Movie • 2017
Feuer
Mary
Movie • 2024
Bava Ben Buta
Boran
Movie • 2002
Deniz Akim
Head-On
Movie • 2004
Barmann Istanbul
Clair Obscur
Movie • 2017
Cem
Soundless
Movie • 2004
Sicherheitschef des Russen
Abdulhamid Falling
Movie • 2003
Bnb. Şefik Bey
Empathy Bx
Movie • 2012
Rashid
Who Killed Lady Winsley?
Movie • 2019
Fergan
Abikalypse
Movie • 2019
Mustis Vater
The Young Chief Winnetou
Movie • 2022
Intschu-tschuna
And The Rest Will Follow
Movie • 2025
Lawyer Ahmet Sönmez
Famous Five 4
Movie • 2015
Farouk
A Small Mistake
Movie
Selim
Juste après l'aube
Movie
Culpa - No One Is Innocent
TV • 2017
Journalist
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Cenk Batu
Adelheid und ihre Mörder
TV • 1993
Hassan
SK-Babies
TV • 1996
Hakan Yassin
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Cem Aslan
The Protector
TV • 2018
Mazhar Dragusha
Mordach - Tod in den Bergen
TV • 2023
Cuma Ozan
Magnificent Century: Kösem
TV • 2015
Derviş Paşa
Testament: The Story of Moses
TV • 2024
Pharaoh
Grimme Award
TV • 1964
Self
DAS!
TV • 1991
So gesehen – Talk am Sonntag
TV • 2012
Self
Abenteuer Türkei
TV • 2015
Sprecher
Into the Night
TV • 2020
Ayaz
NDR Talk Show
TV • 1979
Self
Odysso - Wissen entdecken
TV • 2007
himself
Abendschau
TV • 2000
Self
FBI: International
TV • 2021
Mehdi Esfandiari
Tietjen und Bommes
TV • 1997
Self
Kölner Treff
TV • 1976
Self