
Mehmet Kurtuluş
Known for Acting · 48 credits
- Born
- 1972-04-27 (age 54)
- Place of birth
- Uşak, Turkey
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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Known For
TV Shows (19)

Scene of the Crime
1970
as Cenk Batu / Cem Aslan

DAS!
1991

Abendschau
2000
as Self

NDR Talk Show
1979
as Self

Kölner Treff
1976
as Self

FBI: International
2021
as Mehdi Esfandiari
Tietjen und Bommes
1997
as Self
Grimme Award
1964
as Self

Magnificent Century: Kösem
2015
as Derviş Paşa

The Protector
2018
as Mazhar Dragusha

Into the Night
2020
as Ayaz

Adelheid und ihre Mörder
1993
as Hassan
So gesehen – Talk am Sonntag
2011
as Self

Testament: The Story of Moses
2024
as Pharaoh

SK-Babies
1996
as Hakan Yassin

Mordach - Tod in den Bergen
2023
as Cuma Ozan

Culpa - No One Is Innocent
2017
as Journalist
Odysso - Wissen entdecken
2007
as himself

Abenteuer Türkei
2015
as Sprecher
Movies (29)

Big Game
2014
as Hazar

Mary
2024
as Bava Ben Buta

Head-On
2004
as Barmann Istanbul

Naked
2002
as Dylan

Boran
2002
as Deniz Akim

Getürkt
1997

Who Killed Lady Winsley?
2019
as Fergan

Head Full of Honey
2014
as Dr. Holst

Clair Obscur
2017
as Cem

Famous Five 4
2015
as Farouk

Snowflake
2017
as Feuer

Vasha
2009
as Artur

Transfer
2010
as Laurin

In July
2000
as Isa

The Tunnel
2001
as Vittorio Castanza

Soundless
2004
as Sicherheitschef des Russen

And The Rest Will Follow
2025
as Lawyer Ahmet Sönmez

Pars: Operation Cherry
2007
as Atilla Karahan

Abdulhamid Falling
2003
as Bnb. Şefik Bey

The Young Chief Winnetou
2022
as Intschu-tschuna

Short Sharp Shock
1998
as Gabriel

8 Seconds
2015
as Sami

Abikalypse
2019
as Mustis Vater

Herz
2001
as Cem Rüya
Versprich mir, dass es den Himmel gibt
1999
as Louis
Juste après l'aube
A Small Mistake
as Selim

Eine Liebe in Saigon
2006
as Robin

Empathy Bx
2012
as Rashid
About Mehmet Kurtuluş
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 perf… With 48 credits spanning from 1964 to 2025, Mehmet Kurtuluş has appeared in 29 films and 19 TV shows.
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