Demi Isaac Oviawe: 'My grandmother cradled me like I was a newborn baby'

The Mallow actress on her roles beyond the Young Offenders, and the heartbreak of losing her father when she was a teenager 

Demi Isaac Oviawe stars in Holding on Virgin One. Picture: Brian McEvoy

Demi Isaac Oviawe might have been born in Nigeria, but she’s as Cork as they come. Not afraid to tell it as it is, the Young Offenders star has the personality of a kettle about to boil over – she can’t get the words out quick enough.

But underneath her bubbly personality, the 21-year-old has had to carry a lot on young shoulders. The actress, who has lived in Mallow for 18 years, lost her mother to breast cancer when she was just five years old. At 15, her father passed away after a cancer diagnosis.