Seda Demir

Seda Demir — Biography

Playing Sedef in the series Yaprak Dökümü is what Turkish television and film actress Seda Demir is best known for. She kept the role through all five seasons, from 2006 to 2010, and it introduced her to a wide audience. She studied French-language Public Administration at Marmara University and in later years moved between series, cinema and a competition program.

Acting was not her first plan. She worked as a hostess at trade fairs, signed up with an agency on her friends' encouragement and, although she was called to test shoots, refused for a while to turn up. Her first job was a commercial for Türkiye İş Bankası, followed by other advertisements. After Yaprak Dökümü ended she played Sude in Yıldız Masalı in 2011, came back after a short break in 2013 as Selen in İntikam, and in 2014 took the role of Elif in Beyaz Karanfil.

On the big screen she appeared in Zerre (2012), Aşk-ı Suzan and Bensiz (2013), and in 2015 played Ayşe in Evlenmeden Olmaz. In 2017 she joined the TV8 contest Survivor Türkiye and said farewell to the island that February. In a 2021 interview she said she had been badly misunderstood on the show. Her remarks about her Yaprak Dökümü years have made news again from time to time since.