Mehmet Kurtuluş
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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
Known for
Credits
Equilibrium (2002)
as Search Coordinator
Just After Dawn (2026)
as Jackson
Big Game (2014)
as Hazar
Head-On (2004)
as Barmann Istanbul
Mary (2024)
as Bava Ben Buta
Soundless (2004)
as Sicherheitschef des Russen
Transfer (2010)
as Laurin
Naked (2002)
as Dylan
The Young Chief Winnetou (2022)
as Intschu-tschuna
Getürkt (1997)
Actor
Boran (2002)
as Deniz Akim
Empathy Bx (2012)
as Rashid
The Tunnel (2001)
as Vittorio Castanza
Herz (2001)
as Cem Rüya
In July (2000)
as Isa
Pars: Operation Cherry (2007)
as Atilla Karahan
Snowflake (2017)
as Feuer
Who Killed Lady Winsley? (2019)
as Fergan
Head Full of Honey (2014)
as Dr. Holst
And The Rest Will Follow (2025)
as Lawyer Ahmet Sönmez
Famous Five 4 (2015)
as Farouk
Clair Obscur (2017)
as Cem
8 Seconds (2015)
as Sami
Short Sharp Shock (1998)
as Gabriel
Abikalypse (2019)
as Mustis Vater
Versprich mir, dass es den Himmel gibt (1999)
as Louis
Abdulhamid Falling (2003)
as Bnb. Şefik Bey
Eine Liebe in Saigon (2006)
as Robin
Vasha (2009)
as Artur
A Small Mistake (—)
as Selim