# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melek-baykal
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:10:49.405Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melek-baykal"
name: "Melek Baykal"
slug: "melek-baykal"
description: "Melek Baykal is a Turkish actress mostly appearing in theater and TV series. For 1069 episodes, She played her roles as Nermin in hit daily series Ferhunde Hanımlar. The spin off series Cennet Mahallesi of hit gypsy comedy films Gırgıriye raised her popularity. Nurhayat. After playing in Ferhunde Hanımlar in Ankara, she got many proposals to play in TV series and movies. Because of it, she decided to move to Istanbul. Baykal started to her career when she was 17 years old in a theater by playing an 85-year-old woman. She graduated from Ankara State Conservatory worked at Ankara State Theaters for a long time. She played in the TV series Hayat Bağları and \"Melek Apartmanı\". She played in spin off series \"Akasya Durağı\" one of longest Turkish series \"Çiçek Taksi\". She joined to hit comedy series \"Türk Malı\". Melek Baykal had her cinematic debut with a movie named Kaçma Birader. In 2012, she had her own TV program on Star TV."
tagline: "Turkish actor (born 1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melek_Baykal.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: "1954-08-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.5
  momentum:             4.164619164619164
  historical:           6.257101333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/melekbaykalofficial/"
    handle:    "melekbaykalofficial"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0063001/"
    handle:    "nm0063001"
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melek_Baykal"
    title: "Melek Baykal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "ملك بايكال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "ملك بايكال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melek_Baykal"
    title: "Melek Baykal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melek_Baykal"
    title: "Melek Baykal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%DA%A9_%D8%A8%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "ملک بایکال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6095964"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1252192"
    title: "Melek Baykal"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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