Mehmet Kurtuluş
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
And The Rest Will Follow
2025
as Lawyer Ahmet Sönmez
Mary
2024
as Bava Ben Buta
The Young Chief Winnetou
2022
as Intschu-tschuna
Abikalypse
2019
as Mustis Vater
Who Killed Lady Winsley?
2019
as Fergan
Clair Obscur
2017
as Cem
Snowflake
2017
as Feuer
8 Seconds
2015
as Sami
Famous Five 4
2015
as Farouk
Head Full of Honey
2014
as Dr. Holst
Big Game
2014
as Hazar
Empathy Bx
2012
as Rashid
Transfer
2010
as Laurin
Vasha
2009
as Artur
Pars: Operation Cherry
2007
as Atilla Karahan
Eine Liebe in Saigon
2006
as Robin
Soundless
2004
as Sicherheitschef des Russen
Head-On
2004
as Barmann Istanbul
Abdulhamid Falling
2003
as Bnb. Şefik Bey
Equilibrium
2002
as Search Coordinator
Naked
2002
as Dylan
Boran
2002
as Deniz Akim
Herz
2001
as Cem Rüya
The Tunnel
2001
as Vittorio Castanza