Occupation Actor Height 1.75 m | Years active 2001–present Siblings Joseph M'Barek | |
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Awards Bambi - German film, Bravo Otto - Film Star - Male Movies F*ck You - Goethe, Suck Me Shakespeer 2, Türkisch für Anfänger, Who Am I, Traumfrauen Similar Josefine Preuß, Joseph M'Barek, Karoline Herfurth, Florian David Fitz, Bora Dağtekin Profiles | ||
Elyas m barek red carpet interview at 20th annual hamptons international film festival
Elyas M'Barek (born 29 May 1982) is an Tunisian and Austrian actor who was born in Munich.
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- Elyas m barek red carpet interview at 20th annual hamptons international film festival
- Early life
- Career
- Filmography
- References
Early life
M'Barek was born in Germany, to an Austrian mother and a Tunisian father. His younger brother Yousef (Joseph) is also an actor, who lives in Germany. At the age of 18 he quit school.
Career
He began acting in 2001 in Dennis Gansel's sex comedy Mädchen, Mädchen. The pinnacle of success in Europe gets the lead role with the sitcom Türkisch für Anfänger where he plays the role of Cem Öztürk, a young guy of Turkish origin. Also on the side of Arnel Taci (who in "Türkisch für Anfänger" was his best friend), also will star in the TV series "Abschnitt 40". In 2008, he also appeared in Gansel's acclaimed film thriller-drama Die Welle, in the role of Sinan, a student that embraces fascism. In 2012 he reunites with Mädchen, Mädchen and Die Welle co-star Max Riemelt in the drama film Heiter bis Wolkig opposite Jessica Schwarz and Anna Fischer and will play a lead in the "Türkisch für Anfänger" feature film. He played a vampire in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013).
In 2013 he had the leading role in Fack ju Göhte, which was seen by three million people in 17 days and became the most successful German film of the year. The same year he had a supporting role in the adventure film The Physician, which was also an immediate box-office hit in Germany.
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