# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/birol-unel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:45:20.145Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/birol-unel"
name: "Birol Ünel"
slug: "birol-unel"
description: "Birol Ünel was a Turkish-German actor who played in German and Turkish films, television, and theatrical productions. He was perhaps best known for his role as the alcoholic Cahit Tomruk in Fatih Akin's 2004 drama film Head-On, for which he received the German film prize for Best Actor."
tagline: "Turkish-German actor (1961–2020)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/wYVNLDcvjEUUzr8WiJgkIxGNpdl.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1961-08-18"
deathDate: "2020-09-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.86
  momentum:             2.213942705745984
  historical:           18.19886933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0960379/"
    handle:    "nm0960379"
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    title: "Birol Ünel"
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    title: "Birol Ünel"
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    title: "Birol Ünel"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump