# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/banu-alkan
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:30:41.533Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/banu-alkan"
name: "Banu Alkan"
slug: "banu-alkan"
description: "Banu Alkan is a Turkish actress. She was born into a Bosniak family from Sandžak and moved to Edremit, Balıkesir, Turkey in 1966 when she was eight years old. She is described as an \"80s pop culture icon of Turkey\". Her first film appearance was in the 1976 film Taksi Şoförü directed by Şerif Gören."
tagline: "Turkish actress of Bosniak origin (born 1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Banu_Alkan%2C_2020.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1958-04-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.4
  momentum:             5.567968090515516
  historical:           14.66747466666667
  currentAttention:     28.9313399778516
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0019772/"
    handle:    "nm0019772"
sources:
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banu_Alkan"
    title: "Banu Alkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88_%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "بانو ألكان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "بانو الكان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banu_Alkan"
    title: "Banu Alkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Бану Алкан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banu_Alkan"
    title: "Banu Alkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banu_Alkan"
    title: "Banu Alkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banu_Alkan"
    title: "Banu Alkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banu_Alkan"
    title: "Banu Alkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88_%D8%A2%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "بانو آلکان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B0%94%EB%88%84_%EC%95%8C%EC%B9%B8"
    title: "바누 알칸"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banu_Alkan"
    title: "Banu Alkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Бану Алкан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banu_Alkan"
    title: "Banu Alkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banu_Alkan"
    title: "Banu Alkan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Бану Алкан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "بانو الکان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4857287"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2054874"
    title: "Banu Alkan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump