Birol Ünel
Acting
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.
Born: August 18, 1961
Place of Birth: Silifke, Mersin, Turkey
Known For
Filmography
as İvan
as Aslan
as Hausmeister
as Kongo
as Americo
as Lupô
as Yilmaz
as Worker
as Shayn Weiss
as Gansar
as Jaro
as Axel
as Herr Gold
as Tchangalo
as Pamir
as Demir
as Birol Ünel
as Cahit Tomruk
as Birol
as Sylvester
as Hasan
as Politruk
as Milan
as Bernd Schlegel
as Club Doyen
as Erdal
as Cosmo Nunnari
as Mustafa
as Siggi Kirchlechner
as Harkan Bülent
as Tobias Wölke
as Achim Koch
as Schulte
as Nick Peters
as Erol
as Klaus
as Kemal
as Houari Al'Bakr
as Gürkan Agban
as Rico Baumann
as Henkel