Trivia

Had a doctorate degree in medicine.

As a recovered alcoholic, he traveled all across Turkey and attended hundreds of seminars, telling young people about the dangers of alcohol.

Once claimed that he was offered the role of James Bond.

In a career of over 300 movies, (except a handful of secondary roles in his very early years) he always played the lead.

He has never played a villain. Even in roles where he was a ruthless mob boss, he always found the right path by the end of the film.

Claims almost every bone in his body was broken at one time or another, due to doing his own stunts.

He worked at a circus for some years, and could do all sorts of acrobatics and riding tricks. Quite a few of his historical films include horse scenes, and it is obviously himself doing the jumps on horses, riding while standing, riding between two horses, etc.

He was awarded Honor Award at Pantene Golden Butterfly Awards, the forty-fifth times organization in 2018.

Cüneyt is pronounced 'Junaid' (Ju-nade).

He had an alcohol problem. He was involved in many violent events.