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Burak Yiğit, born 1986, grew up in Berlin-Kreuzberg and became a Gardener, before he discovered his acting talent at the Berlin theatre festival "100 Grad". He continued to act in short films, radio plays and on stage at the Berlin Volksbühne.
His acting breakthrough came in 2008, when he played the supporting role of a juvenile crime suspect in the popular TV-crime-series "Tatort". In the following year he had larger supporting parts in films such as "66/67 – Fairplay war gestern" and the episodic dramas "Shahada" and "Kreuzkölln". For his impressive leading role in the youth drama "Bis aufs Blut – Brüder auf Bewährung" Yiğit was awarded a "special mention" at the Schwerin Filmfestival.
Sebastian Schipper's idiosyncratic and award-winning bank robber film "Victoria" premiered in competition at the Berlinale 2015, and in which Yiğit was part of the main cast with Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Max Mauff and Laia Costa. In the same year, he had an important role in the multi-award winning drama "Mustang" (FR/DE/TR 2015) by Deniz Gamze Ergüven, set in Turkey. Here, he played a truck driver who helps two young women escape from their repressive family.
In the next few years, Yiğit played mostly supporting roles in feature film productions, among them "Gut zu Vögeln" (2016) and Bülent Ceylan comedy "Verpiss Dich, Schneewittchen" (2018). On television, he took on series roles and appeared in a number of television dramas. His important TV roles during this period include a young prison inmate who becomes a political pawn in the six-part political series "Die Stadt und die Macht" (2016), a partying regular guest at a trendy bar in Achim Bornhak's "Shakespeares letzte Runde" (2016) and a clan member in the crime thriller "Gegen die Angst" (2019).
In 2020, Yiğit appeared in the gangster film "Dünnes Blut" as the unloved son of a clan boss (Kida Khodr Ramadan) and in a smaller role in Ramadan's feature film directorial work "In Berlin wächst kein Orangenbaum." A short time later, Ramadan cast him in the lead role of his next film: in the social drama "Égalité" (2021), Yiğit embodied a father whose 14-year-old daughter goes blind after a seemingly harmless tonsil operation. The film premiered at the Hof Film Festival in October 2021. The film was released in theaters in January 2022.