Mehmet Kurtuluş
Actor
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.
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Filmography
Head-On
as Barmann Istanbul 2004
Head Full of Honey
as Dr. Holst 2014
In July
as Isa 2000
Mary
as Bava Ben Buta 2024
The Tunnel
as Vittorio Castanza 2001
Short Sharp Shock
as Gabriel 1998
Snowflake
as Feuer 2017
Famous Five 4
as Farouk 2015
Clair Obscur
as Cem 2017
Naked
as Dylan 2002
Who Killed Lady Winsley?
as Fergan 2019
Transfer
as Laurin 2010
Soundless
as Sicherheitschef des Russen 2004
8 Seconds
as Sami 2015
Pars: Operation Cherry
as Atilla Karahan 2007
The Young Chief Winnetou
as Intschu-tschuna 2022