# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karan
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:54:28.719Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karan"
name: "Karan"
slug: "karan"
description: "Karan is an Indian former actor who appeared predominantly in Tamil and Malayalam films. He started his career as a child actor. In the 1990s he started to act in leading and villain roles. In the mid-2000s, after a sabbatical, Karan chose to prioritise appearing in films where he would portray the lead role following the relative success of Kokki (2006)."
tagline: "Indian actor"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1969-08-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.43
  momentum:             3.13585291113381
  historical:           5.344442666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1093959/"
    handle:    "nm1093959"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karan_(actor)"
    title: "Karan (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "كاران"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "كاران"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%A3%E0%AF%8D_(%E0%AE%A8%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D)"
    title: "கரண் (நடிகர்)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%BC_%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%98%E0%B5%81_(%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%B0%E0%B5%BA)"
    title: "മാസ്റ്റർ രഘു (കരൺ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A3_(%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE)"
    title: "करण (अभिनेता)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6368373"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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