Actor
Elyas M'Barek
May 29, 1982 · Munich, Germany
Elyas M’Barek is an Austrian actor. M’Barek made his first feature film appearance while still in school, playing the character "Blaubart" in Dennis Gansel’s *Mädchen, Mädchen*. In the ARD early-evening series *Türkisch für Anfänger* (Turkish for Beginners), he played Cemil (Cem) Öztürk—a macho character of Turkish descent whose father moves in with a German woman and her children. In 2006, he was awarded the German Television Prize in the category "Best Lead Actor in a Series" for this role. That same year, the series itself received the German Television Prize in the category "Best Series." M’Barek played one of the lead roles in the film *Wholetrain*, which is set within the graffiti scene. In 2008, he portrayed the Turkish teenager Sinan in the film adaptation of the novel *Die Welle* (The Wave).
Notable work
6.4The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)
as The Vampire Leader
7.5The Wave (2008)
as Sinan
7Suck Me Shakespeer (2013)
as Zeki Müller
7.6Who Am I (2014)
as Max
7.3The Physician (2013)
as Karim
6.5Suck Me Shakespeer 2 (2015)
as Zeki Müller
6.1Suck Me Shakespeer 3 (2017)
as Zeki Müller
7.4The Collini Case (2019)
as Caspar Leinen
6.1Turkish for Beginners (2012)
as Cem Öztürk
6.5The Perfect Secret (2019)
as Leo
7.3This Crazy Heart (2017)
as Lenny Reinhard
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