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Birol Ünel

Birol Ünel

Birthday: 1961-08-18 | Place of Birth: Silifke, Mersin, Turkey

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Birol Ünel (born 18 August 1961) is a German actor of Turkish descent. He has acted in a number of German and Turkish films, TV series 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2018
2016
Falling

as    Aslan

2016
Back to nothing

as    Kongo

2012
Sleepless Night

as    Yilmaz

2009
Soul Kitchen

as    Shayn Weiss

2007
The Unpolished

as    Axel

2007
Transylvania

as    Tchangalo

2006
House of the Sleeping Beauties

as    Herr Gold

2005
Robbery Alla Turca

as    Pamir

2004
German Dream

as    Birol Ünel

2004
Head-On

as    Cahit Tomruk

2004
Kalbin Zamanı

as    Demir

2003
King of Thieves

as    Birol

2002
My Mother

as    Hasan

2002
Blackberry

as    Sylvester

2000
In July

as    Club Doyen

1999
Dealer

as    Erdal

1996
Landgang für Ringo

as    Yusuf