Arzum Onan is a Turkish

Turkish people

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 television actress, a former model

Model (person)

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, beauty contest

Beauty contest

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ant and Miss Europe

Miss Europe

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 1993.

Biography

She was born on October 31, 1973 in Ankara

Ankara

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, Turkey

Turkey

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. After the primary school in Ankara, her family moved to İstanbul

Istanbul

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, where she finished the vocational high school as a draftswoman

Technical drawing

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.

Arzum began her career in 1992 as a model. She participated in the Miss Turkey contest in April 1993, and won the title. The same year in July, she represented her country at the Miss Europe beauty contest held in İstanbul, and was crowned Miss Europe 1993. She became the fifth Turkish beauty queen following Günseli Başar

Günseli Basar

Günseli Başar is a former Turkish beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1952.-Biography:She was born on January 22, 1932 to an officer's family in Diyarbakır, where her father was stationed. However, her birth was registered some time later in Erzurum due to her father's transfer...

, Filiz Vural

Filiz Vural

Filiz Vural is a former Turkish beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1971.-Biography:Filiz participated at a beauty pageant organized by the newspaper Hürriyet, and won the title Miss Turkey 1970. The next year, she represented her country at the Miss Europe beauty contest held in Tunis, Tunisia, and...

, Nazlı Deniz Kuruoğlu

Nazli Deniz Kuruoglu

Nazlı Deniz Kuruoğlu is a Turkish ballet dancer and a former beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1982.-Biography:She was educated in ballet dancing at the Conservatory of Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul, Turkey. She danced in the state opera until she had to quit active dancing career following a...

 and Neşe Erberk

Nese Erberk

Neşe Erberk is a Turkish businesswoman, a former fashion model, beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1984.-Biography:She was born on October 14, 1964, in İstanbul, Turkey...

.

Since 1997, she successfully played in a number of films, mini television series and commercials.

In 1996, Arzum married the actor Mehmet Aslantuğ, from whom she has a son, Can, born in 1999. She enjoys creating sculpture

Sculpture

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s in her free time. In 2005, she got it over with a thyroid

Thyroid

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surgery.

She speaks Turkish and English fluently.

Filmography

• Yeni Bir Yıldız (1997)
• Sıcak Saatler (1998)
• Aşk ve Hüzün (2000)
• Merdoğlu (2000)
• Zeybek Ateşi (2002)
• Sahra (2004)
• Sessiz Firtina (2007)
• Kardelen (2008)