

Haluk Bilginer
Acting
June 5, 1954
İzmir, Turkey
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.
The Filmography


Halloween

Forget About Nick

Shelter

Cingöz Recai

The Bank of Broken Hearts

The Ottoman Lieutenant

Rosewater

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

W.E.

Five Minarets in New York

A Son of the Sun

Cars of the Revolution

Police

15 Minutes Over Low Heat

Robbery Alla Turca

Disappeared

Where's Firuze?

The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
