---
name: "Burak Yiğit"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/burak-yigit"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1986"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T12:31:32.762636+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Burak Yiğit

Actor. Born 1 January 1986 in Berlin, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1986, Berlin, Germany
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1010197, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2916919/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/520561

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Mustang*](https://film.one/film/mustang.md) (84), [*Victoria*](https://film.one/film/victoria.md) (76)

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## Biography

Burak Yiğit is a German actor born in 1986 in Kreuzberg, Berlin. Of Turkish descent, he completed a gardener apprenticeship before making his stage debut in 2004 at the Berlin 100 Grad Festival in a production directed by Tamer Yigit. Early work included short films, radio plays and theatre roles at venues such as the Volksbühne Berlin.

He gained wider attention in 2008 with a role in the *Tatort* episode *Auf der Sonnenseite*. Yiğit received the Bayerischer Filmpreis and the Max Ophüls Preis for best newcomer for his performance in *Bis aufs Blut – Brüder auf Bewährung* (2010). He is known for supporting roles in *Victoria* (2015) and *Mustang* (2015), as well as appearances in television series including *Dogs of Berlin* (2018) and *Crooks* (2024).

*Sources: imdb.com, de.wikipedia.org, filmportal.de.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Mustang* (2015), Fi1m 84, as Yasin — [page](https://film.one/film/mustang.md)
- *Victoria* (2015), Fi1m 76, as Blinker — [page](https://film.one/film/victoria.md)

## Complete filmography (66)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Berlin Kills Me* (2026), Acting
- *Tod meiner Jugend* (2026), as Aladin Müller
- *Elephant in the Room* (2025), Acting
- *Crooks* (2024), series, as [Said] Coin Security
- *One for the Road* (2023), as Nadim
- *Early Birds* (2023), as Agon
- *German Genius* (2023), series, as Burak Yiğit
- *Asbest* (2023), series, as Sharif Kaval
- *Égalité* (2022), as Attila
- *Sniperman* (2021), as Checker
- *Fly* (2021), as Nouri
- *Toubab* (2021), as Semin
- *Precious Ivie* (2021), as Robert
- *In Berlin wächst kein Orangenbaum* (2020), as Ali
- *Thin Blood* (2020), as Cenk Kaplan
- *Der Weihnachtsgrummel* (2019), series, as Aday
- *Somebody and Nobody* (2019), Acting
- *Gegen die Angst* (2019), as Hisham Al-Fadi
- *Dogs of Berlin* (2018), series, as Qays Jandoubi
- *Penthesilea* (2018), as Nadim
- *Herr und Frau Bulle* (2018), series, as Vito
- *Billy Kuckuck - Margot muss bleiben!* (2018), as Emre Sahin
- *Verpiss Dich, Schneewittchen* (2018), as Kerem
- *Familiye* (2017), Acting
- *Obst & Gemüse* (2017), as Momo
- *Mann im Spagat - Pace, Cowboy, Pace* (2017), as Arabischer Neuköllner
- *Dimitrios Schulze* (2016), as Yasser Abacki
- *Sin & Illy still alive* (2016), as Mesuth
- *The Bittersweet Taste of Power* (2016), as Pierre Wegener
- *How Men Talk About Women* (2016), as Mani
- *Blockbustaz* (2016), series, as Hipster
- *Gut zu Vögeln* (2016), Acting
- *Die Stadt und die Macht* (2016), series, as Jussuf Antun
- *Mustang* (2015), as Yasin — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/mustang.md)
- *Victoria* (2015), as Blinker — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/victoria.md)
- *Der Pfarrer und das Mädchen* (2015), as Erdem
- *Einstein* (2015), as Miran Bastürk
- *Momentversagen* (2014), as Cem
- *Willkommen bei Habib* (2014), as Neco
- *Kommissarin Heller* (2014), series, Acting
- *Nichts für Feiglinge* (2014), as Mehmet
- *UMMAH - Unter Freunden* (2013), as Jamal
- *Heldt* (2013), series, as Yusuf Celik, Alan Barsani
- *Five Years* (2013), as Oktay
- *Meine Beschneidung* (2013), as Doctor
- *Westerland* (2012), as Cem
- *Move* (2012), as Bibelforscher
- *MEK 8* (2012), series, as Malik Isouh
- *Letzte Spur Berlin* (2012), series, as Samir Dzeko
- *Kommissar Marthaler* (2012), series, as Alberto Gazetti
- *Karaman* (2012), as Niyazi
- *Dr. Ketel - Der Schatten von Neukölln* (2011), as Ercan
- *One Shot* (2011), Acting
- *Bis aufs Blut* (2010), as Sule
- *Faith* (2010), as Sinan
- *SOKO Stuttgart* (2009), series, as Azem Agaj
- *66/67 - Fairplay war gestern* (2009), as Sinan
- *Gurbet - Fremde Heimat* (2009), as Metin
- *Homicide Unit Istanbul* (2008), series, as Alim
- *SOKO Köln* (2003), series, as Mehmet Joussufi
- *SOKO Leipzig* (2001), series, as Mustafa Demir, Tarik Nazemi
- *The Old Fox* (1977), series, as Mesut Özat
- *Polizeiruf 110* (1971), series, as Cem Imren
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Deniz Nezrem
- *Roccos Reise*, Acting
- *My Little Elephant*, as Mika

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