Fatima Al-Banawi (Arabic: فاطمة البنوي Hejazi: [ˈfaːtˤma alˈbanawi]) is a Saudi Arabian filmmaker and actress.

[2] Al-Banawi was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to a family of Turkish, Bosnian, Lebanese and Syrian origin.

[1] During her undergraduate period, she attended an advanced oil painting course at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.

[1] By using her experiences and gathered information from strangers in her hometown of Jeddah between 2015 and 2018, she wrote her first book, The Other Story.

In 2019, she made a special appearance in the feature film Roll'em and television serial Om AlQalayed.

Then during the global COVID-19 pandemic, she co-wrote, co-directed and starred in television serial Al-Shak Series, which she shot fully from home during the lockdown.

In 2023, Al-Banawi appeared for the first time of her career in the Egyptian cinema, in the comedy film El Ameel Sefr directed by Karim El-Adl and starring Akram Hosny.