Birol Ünel

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1961-08-18 (59 years old)

Deathday

2020-09-03

Place of Birth

Silifke, Mersin, Turkey

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...

Acting

2004

Head-On

as Cahit Tomruk

2000

In July

as Club Doyen

2009

Soul Kitchen

as Shayn Weiss

2007

2005

2002

Blackberry

as Sylvester

2007

Valerie

as Jaro

2012

1999

Dealer

as Erdal

2006

Transylvania

as Tchangalo

1998

2004

German Dream

as Birol Ünel

2001

Planet Alex

as Milan

1992

Mau Mau

as Schulte

2015

I'm Off Then

as Americo

1999

2016

2004

2011

The Cricket

as Worker

2002

My Mother

as Hasan

2016

Falling

as Aslan

2000

Tour Abroad

as Osman

2003

2001

2004

2011

2016

Plan B

as Hausmeister

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