Originally out of Turkey, this delightful daddy has been burning up the big and small screens of Europe since the early 90s and if you haven't heard of him before, get ready for a new father figure in your spank bank! Erdal Yildiz was born in Tunceli, Turkey in 1966 but moved to Germany with his folks when he was just 7 and has been a staple in the Deutschland art community for almost 30 years now! He's been in theater productions of classics like A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but is likely most recognizable for his work in front of the lens. He broke out in a big way in the late 90s with appearances on shows like Tatort and Der Fahnder, as well as playing tough guys, dads, and hunky heartthrobs in movies like April Children (1998), Finnlandia (2001), Zenne Dancer (2011), and Collide (2016). More recently he's been a go to in the TV world for bad guys, even branching into popular series like Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Halka, Skylines, and the 2020 Netflix docu-drama series Rise of Empires: Ottoman. He breaks out that beautiful Turkish delight of a tush though in 2020's biopic about Ranier Werner Fassbinder, Enfant Terrible, where he plays one of the hard partying director's lovers. The amount of facial hair pushing together in that scene almost makes it sound like velcro ripping apart when that mustache ride is over, which is sexier than it sounds and Erdal arouses plenty of "terrible" ideas in our minds when his buns hit the screen!
