# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-banas
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:26:23.699Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-banas"
name: "John Banas"
slug: "john-banas"
tagline: "New Zealand actor, scriptwriter, film, theatre director and former director of Downstage"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/laWozoDYd1Jf819D72kwdIiIWXh.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           3.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.333333333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  64
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-banas-b437526a/"
    handle:    "john-banas-b437526a"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0051555/"
    handle:    "nm0051555"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107388974"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/164591"
    title: "John Banas"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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