Mehmet Emin Toprak

Mehmet Emin Toprak
Born(1974-09-11)11 September 1974
Yenice, Çanakkale, Turkey
Died2 December 2002(2002-12-02) (aged 28)
Çan, Çanakkale, Turkey
NationalityTurkish
OccupationFilm actor
Years active1997–2002
RelativesNuri Bilge Ceylan (cousin)

Mehmet Emin Toprak (11 September 1974 – 2 December 2002) was a Turkish film actor.

Toprak starred in the critically acclaimed 2002 film Uzak.[1] He died in a car crash on the way back from the Ankara Film Festival near the town of Çan, at the age of 28.[2]

A few weeks after the accident, the film Uzak was shown at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, where Toprak was posthumously awarded Best Actor.[3]

  1. ^ "Critic Reviews for Distant". Metacritic. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference yenice was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Gibbons, Fiachra (5 September 2003). "Tragic twist denies young star triumph in Venice". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2019.