Elyas M'Barek

Elyas MBarek is an Austrian actor MBarek made his first feature film appearance while still in school playing the character Blaubart in Dennis Gansels Mädchen Mädchen In the ARD earlyevening series Türkisch für Anfänger Turkish for Beginners he played Cemil Cem Öztürka 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 MBarek 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 Doctors 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 ProSiebens Funny Movie series In 2012 MBarek could be seen in the feature films Türkisch für Anfänger Fünf Freunde Five Friends Offroad and Heiter bis wolkig On October 25 2012 the animated feature Hotel Transylvania was released in which healongside Josefine Preußlent his voice to one of the lead roles In September 2012 MBareks role in the film adaptations of The Mortal Instruments book series was confirmed In November 2013 the comedy Fack ju Göhte was released in which he took on the role of Zeki Müller He reprised this role in the sequel Fack ju Göhte 2 which hit theaters in September 2015 In the film adaptation The Physician MBarek starred alongside Tom Payne and Ben Kingsley In February 2015 he appeared on the big screen as Joseph in the comedy Traumfrauen in which he played a leading role alongside Hannah Herzsprung Karoline Herfurth Palina Rojinski and Iris Berben In November 2016 the comedy Welcome to Germanyin which MBarek appears as the doctor Tarek Bergerwas released in theaters