Ata Demirer

Born

6 July 1972 (aged 54)

Place of birth

Bursa

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie

Ata Demirer was born on 6 July 1972 in Bursa. He completed his secondary education in Bursa, and in his youth he played piano and sang in nightclubs. In 1991 he moved to Istanbul and began studying in the Turkish music department of the state conservatory; after a while he left school and turned to stage shows.

Stepping onto the professional stage at the Dormen Tiyatrosu with the play Komik Para, Demirer reached a large audience in 1998 with the show Tek Kişilik Dev Kadro, which he first performed at Leman Kültür. He prepared the television program Korsan TV, adapting the characters from the show for television. His nationwide fame came with the character Volkan Sütçüoğlu, whom he played for three seasons in the series Avrupa Yakası.

In cinema, after the films Vizontele Tuuba and Neredesin Firuze, he took his first leading role in Kısık Ateşte 15 Dakika. In the Eyyvah Eyvah series, directed by Hakan Algül, he both wrote the screenplay and played the character Hüseyin Badem. In Berlin Kaplanı, whose screenplay was again his own, he played Ayhan Kaplan, a boxer living in Berlin. In the film Bursa Bülbülü, in addition to the screenplay and the lead role, he also wrote the lyrics of a song in the film. In music, he has released one album and one single.

Demirer played Sultan VII. Osman in Avşar Film's 2008 film Osmanlı Cumhuriyeti.