Mehmet Kurtuluş has been in the trade long enough to be called a veteran actor who has rarely been away from the screen for long. 'Big Game' counts among the more visible credits. Drama keeps coming back on the credit list. There are 36 entries on the filmography, most of them supporting work in other people's stories. 'Equilibrium' is the longest-standing point of contact with the audience.
Mehmet Kurtuluş
Actor
54 years (Apr 27, 1972)Uşak, Turkey
Mehmet Kurtuluş has been in the trade long enough to be called a veteran actor who has rarely been away from the screen for long. 'Big Game' counts among the more visible credits. Drama keeps coming back on the credit list. There are 36 entries on the filmography, most of them supporting work in other people's stories. 'Equilibrium' is the longest-standing point of contact with the audience.
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.