Elyas M'Barek

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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). From 2009 to 2011, he appeared in the medical series Doctor’s Diary, and in 2010, he played the young Bushido in Zeiten ändern dich. He also appeared as Flo in the film Teufelskicker. Filming began on September 21, 2010, for the movie What a Man, which was released in German cinemas in August 2011. Also in 2011, he appeared in the film Biss zur großen Pause – Das Highschool Vampir Grusical (Bite Until the Big Break – The High School Vampire Musical), a production of ProSieben's Funny Movie series. In 2012, M’Barek could be seen in the feature films Türkisch für Anfänger, Fünf Freunde (Five Friends), Offroad, and Heiter bis wolkig. On October 25, 2012, the an