# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tayfun-bademsoy
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:39:06.705Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tayfun-bademsoy"
name: "Tayfun Bademsoy"
slug: "tayfun-bademsoy"
description: "Tayfun Bademsoy is a Turkish-born German actor who currently has over 250 TV and cinema productions. He is known for his appearance in many crime-scene series. In his first Hollywood role, he played the role of Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun in the movie Beyond the Sea. Bademsoy is also the voice actor who serves as the character Sayid's German voice in the American TV series Lost."
tagline: "Turkish actor (born 1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maischberger_-_2017-04-26-3002.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1958-10-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.48
  momentum:             1.207289293849658
  historical:           9.937514666666669
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0046009/"
    handle:    "nm0046009"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.tayfunbademsoy.de"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "تايفون باديمسوى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تایفون بادئمسوی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tayfun_Bademsoy"
    title: "Tayfun Bademsoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tayfun_Bademsoy"
    title: "Tayfun Bademsoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "تایفون بادمسوی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tayfun_Bademsoy"
    title: "Tayfun Bademsoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%83%80%EC%9D%B4%ED%91%BC_%EB%B0%94%EB%8E%80%EC%86%8C%EC%9D%B4"
    title: "타이푼 바뎀소이"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tayfun_Bademsoy"
    title: "Tayfun Bademsoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tayfun_Bademsoy"
    title: "Tayfun Bademsoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tayfun_Bademsoy"
    title: "Tayfun Bademsoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90879"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/233701"
    title: "Tayfun Bademsoy"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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