Rojda Demirer
- Actress
Rojda Demirer (born 12 August 1980 in Ankara) is a Turkish theater, movie, television, and voice actress.
She was born in Ankara to a father of origin from Diyarbakir. She was born in Ankara to a father of origin from Diyarbakir. Her paternal family is of Kurdish descent, from Raman tribe. (mix Assyrian people, Jewiishs people, Farsi, Armenian, Turkic people) Her cousin is actress, Belcim Bilgin. She and Belcim Bilgin played in Kordugum Her father died of cancer when Demirer was seven. She lived with her mother and elder sister Ruken. Rojda is the Kurdish language word for "sunrise". However, she can't speak Kurdish.
At the age of 8, she began performing in children's programmes at the state-owned TRT's Radio Ankara. Between 1997-2001, Demirer studied drama at the Turkish State Conservatory of Hacettepe University in Ankara. After graduation, she worked for the State Theater of Trabzon from 2003 to 2008.
She received the Ismail Cem Television Award, the "Best Supporting Actress in a TV-series for Youth" in 2010 for her role in the Show TV youth drama series Melekler Korusun. The serial is at present being re-run by the Fox TV Turkey.
Lately, she opened an upmarket home-made chocolate store in the Nisantasi quarter of Istanbul together with her sister Ruken Demirer, who is also an actress.
She was born in Ankara to a father of origin from Diyarbakir. She was born in Ankara to a father of origin from Diyarbakir. Her paternal family is of Kurdish descent, from Raman tribe. (mix Assyrian people, Jewiishs people, Farsi, Armenian, Turkic people) Her cousin is actress, Belcim Bilgin. She and Belcim Bilgin played in Kordugum Her father died of cancer when Demirer was seven. She lived with her mother and elder sister Ruken. Rojda is the Kurdish language word for "sunrise". However, she can't speak Kurdish.
At the age of 8, she began performing in children's programmes at the state-owned TRT's Radio Ankara. Between 1997-2001, Demirer studied drama at the Turkish State Conservatory of Hacettepe University in Ankara. After graduation, she worked for the State Theater of Trabzon from 2003 to 2008.
She received the Ismail Cem Television Award, the "Best Supporting Actress in a TV-series for Youth" in 2010 for her role in the Show TV youth drama series Melekler Korusun. The serial is at present being re-run by the Fox TV Turkey.
Lately, she opened an upmarket home-made chocolate store in the Nisantasi quarter of Istanbul together with her sister Ruken Demirer, who is also an actress.
