Mehmet Günsür is a Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 actor.

Biography

Günsür worked first as a barman and then as a model before becoming an actor. He graduated from Italian High School. Since his debut, he has acted in Turkish, Italian, and some American films. His best known roles are in the films O Şimdi Asker, Anlat İstanbul, and Hamam

Hamam (film)

Hamam is a 1997 Italian-Turkish-Spanish film directed by Ferzan Özpetek about the powerful transformations certain places can cause in people.- Synopsis :...

.

His awards include Most Promising Actor at the 1998 Ankara International Film Festival

Ankara International Film Festival

The Ankara International Film Festival is a film festival, organized by The World Mass Media Research Foundation and accredited by FIPRESCI, which has been held in Ankara, Turkey since 1988.-Editions:...

 for Hamam and the only Special Jury Award given in 2003 by the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival

Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival

The Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival is a film festival, held annually since 1963 in Antalya, is the most important national film festival in Turkey...

 for his performance in O Şimdi Asker.

Personal life

Mehmet Günsür is married to Italian documentary director Katerina Mongio. The couple has two kids (Ali and Maya). They currently live in Lecce

Lecce

Lecce is a historic city of 95,200 inhabitants in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Lecce, the second province in the region by population, as well as one of the most important cities of Puglia...

, a town in the south of Italy.

Filmography

• Geçmiş Bahar Mimozaları (1989)
• Hamam
  Hamam (film)
  Hamam is a 1997 Italian-Turkish-Spanish film directed by Ferzan Özpetek about the powerful transformations certain places can cause in people.- Synopsis :...
  
  (1997)
• Hayal Kurma Oyunları (1999)
• Don Matteo
• Amici di Gesù - Giuda, Gli (2001)
• Amici di Gesù - Tommaso, Gli (2001)
• L Italiano (2002)
• Pilli Bebek (2003)
• Il Papa Buono (2003)
• O Şimdi Asker (2003)
• Kasırga İnsanları (2004), television mini-series
• Beyaz Gelincik (2005–2007), television series
• Istanbul Tales
  Istanbul Tales
  Istanbul Tales is a 2005 Turkish drama-anthology film, directed by Selim Demirdelen, Kudret Sabancı, Ümit Ünal, Yücel Yolcu and Ömür Atay, which tells 5 interconnected stories set in modern day Istanbul based on the fairytales Snow White, Cinderella, Pied Piper, Sleeping Beauty and Little Red...
  
   (Anlat İstanbul) (2005)
• Fall Down Dead
  Fall Down Dead
  Fall Down Dead is a horror/slasher film starring Dominique Swain released in 2007. The storyline involves a metropolitan city in the grip of fear after rolling blackouts bring out a serial killer dubbed "The Picasso Killer"...
  
  (2007)
• Ses (2010)
• Aşk Tesadüfleri Sever (2011)