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Haluk Bilginer
Nihat Haluk Bilginer (born 5 June 1954) is a Turkish actor. In addition to his acting career in Turkey, he has also worked in the United Kingdom and remains best known for his role as Mehmet Osman in the television soap opera EastEnders during the 1980s. He has also starred in Hollywood movies as a minor actor. He played a villainous guerrilla leader in the 1987 comedy film Ishtar and a Turkish Mafioso in the 2001 dark comedy film Buffalo Soldiers. In 2018, he played Doctor Sartain in Halloween and in 2023 he starred as the lead in the TV series The Turkish Detective.
For his role in Şahsiyet (2018), Bilginer won the Best Actor award at the 47th International Emmy Awards.
As actor
Yan Yana
Maria
Stuck Apart
Leyla Everlasting
Noah Land
Halloween
The Ottoman Lieutenant
The Bank of Broken Hearts
Cingöz Recai
Forget About Nick
Shelter
The Last Schnitzel
Trendy
Ben-Hur
Rosewater
Winter Sleep
Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu
A Long Cold Winter
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Antonius and Cleopatra
W.E.
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Çanakkale Çocukları
Five Minarets in New York
7 Husbands for Hurmuz
The International
The Watercolor-Suluboya
A Son of the Sun
Cars of the Revolution
Police