Haluk Bilginer has starred in Hollywood movies as a minor actor.
13 Facts About Haluk Bilginer
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Haluk Bilginer played a villainous guerrilla leader in the 1987 comedy film Ishtar and a Turkish Mafioso in the 2001 dark comedy film Buffalo Soldiers.
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Haluk Bilginer graduated from the Ankara State Conservatory in 1977 before going to England where he graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
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Haluk Bilginer landed his first role in the long running UK soap opera EastEnders.
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Haluk Bilginer made his first appearance in EastEnders as Mehmet Osman on-screen in June 1985, four months after the show originally aired.
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Haluk Bilginer's arrival coincides with a cot death storyline of Sue and Ali's baby, Hassan.
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Haluk Bilginer was accompanied by legendary actress Turkan Soray, who played his wife, Asuman Dabak playing the witty cleaner, Neco playing the Greek neighbor and Colpan Ilhan playing Neco's wife.
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Haluk Bilginer has said that he will work in all of Onur Unlu's movies, even as an extra if required.
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Haluk Bilginer played the role of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in an Is Bank commercial, which first aired on 10 November 2007 during the 69th commemorations of Ataturk's death.
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Haluk Bilginer co-starred in the 2009 American thriller The International as Ahmet Sunay, a Turkish high-tech missile guidance system dealer.
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Haluk Bilginer was accompanied by Clive Owen and Naomi Watts in this movie.
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Haluk Bilginer plays Aydin, an imposing grey-haired former actor, in Winter Sleep, which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.
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In 2018, Haluk Bilginer played Dr Ranbir Sartain, the new psychiatrist of Michael Myers, in the slasher sequel Halloween, and starred in the TV series Sahsiyet, playing a retired court clerk who is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.