Acting
Birol Ünel
EN, TR, ES, DE cinema · 39 credits
Born
18 August 1961
Died
3 September 2020 (aged 59)
Birthplace
Silifke, Mersin, Turkey
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.
Known for
Filmography
Falling
as Aslan
Plan B
as Hausmeister
I'm Off Then
as Americo
Showman Olli Schulz
as Therapeut
Sleepless Night
as Yilmaz
Soul Kitchen
as Shayn Weiss
The Unpolished
as Axel
Valerie
as Jaro
House of the Sleeping Beauties
as Herr Gold
Transylvania
as Tchangalo
Robbery Alla Turca
as Pamir
Head-On
as Cahit Tomruk
German Dream
as Birol Ünel
Kalbin Zamanı
as Demir
King of Thieves
as Birol
Blackberry
as Sylvester
My Mother
as Hasan
Enemy at the Gates
as Politruk
In July
as Club Doyen
Dealer
as Erdal
Frankfurt Millennium
as Mustafa
Mau Mau
as Schulte
