Birol Ünel
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Birol Ünel (born 18 August 1961) was a Turkish-German actor who played in German and Turkish films, television, and theatrical productions. His name, "Birol", means "unique" in Turkish. Ünel was born in Mersin in southern Turkey. In 1968, his family moved to Brinkum near Bremen in Germany. He studied acting at Hanover Conservatory. Ünel began as a theatre actor at the Berliner Tacheles where he played the lead and also directed the play "Caligula". Ünel made his film debut in 1988's The Passenger. He played a private detective in the film Dealer which he followed up with a role in Fatih Akın's Im Juli. Birol then acted in the award winning Gegen die Wand as Cahit Tomruk. He won the German film prize for best actor for this role. His latest films have been Transylvania, Seven Heroes and Soul Kitchen. Ünel also acted in the hit Turkish film Hırsız var! in 2005. Description above from the Wikipedia article Birol Ünel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Shows(20)
KRIMI.DE
Herr Weiß
Leute am Donnerstag
himself
Inspektor Rolle
Tschokan Bischkek
Der Puma - Kämpfer mit Herz
Bernd Schlegel
Tierarzt Dr. Engel
Siggi Kirchlechner
Der Clown
Cosmo Nunnari
Dead Pool
Zohair Y. Akache aka 'Captain Mahmoud'
Friedemann Brix - Eine Schwäche für Mord
Dieter Lohmann
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Harkan Bülent
Balko
Tobias Wölke
Balko
Achim Koch
Der Fahnder
Nick Peters
Der Fahnder
Erol
A Case For Two
Klaus
Auf Achse
Kemal
Scene of the Crime
Houari Al'Bakr
Scene of the Crime
Gürkan Agban
Scene of the Crime
Rico Baumann
Scene of the Crime
Henkel
German Film Award
Self