Birol Ãœnel
Birol Ünel ( born August 18, 1961 in Silifke ) is a German actor of Turkish origin.
Life
Born in Silifke in southern Turkey drew Ünel 1968 to his parents in Germany and grew up in last Brinkum near Bremen. After training as a Parkettleger he completed his acting training at the University of Music and Theatre in Hanover.
Theater
In 1992 he began as a stage actor at Berlin's Kunsthaus Tacheles, where he led both as Director also played the title role in the play " Caligula ". In Frank Castorf 's production of " Die Nibelungen - Born Bad " at the Volksbühne am Rosa- Luxembourg - Platz in Berlin Ünel played 1994 Siegfried.
In February 2007, played the Stadttheater Hildesheim, this two-person play " Winter" by Jon Fosse, in the Ünel played one of the two roles alongside Göksen Güntel.
Movies & Television
His film debut was in 1988 Ünel " The Passenger " on the side of Tony Curtis, followed by small and medium-sized roles, mostly as unsavory type, until he as a civilian investigator in "dealer" (1998 ) attracted more attention. He played in 2000 in Fatih Akin's in July. He celebrated his big breakthrough in 2004 as an alcoholic in Fatih Akin's Head-On, for which he also won the German Film Award for Best Actor.
In Heinrich Breloer Two Piece docu- drama Dead Pool 1997 he convinced about the kidnapping of the employers President Hanns -Martin Schleyer by members of the RAF and the hijacking of the Lufthansa aircraft Landshut by a Palestinian terrorist command with his portrayal of Palestinian terrorists "Captain Mahmoud ".
As a consequence, international inquiries (eg "Not a Love Story", 2005) and roles in the Turkish film (eg " Hirsiz var ", 2005) came. In 2009 he was again seen in a Fatih Akın film in the comedy Soul Kitchen.
Awards
- 2004: German Film Award for Best Actor in Against the Wall