Aydan Şener is a Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 film and television actress of Tatar descent, former model

Model (person)

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, Miss Turkey

Miss Turkey

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 1981 and a beauty contest

Beauty contest

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ant in Miss World 1981

Miss World 1981

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Biography

She was born in Kilis

Kilis

Kilis is a city in south-central Turkey on the border with Syria and capital of Kilis Province.- History and Population :Kilis was part of the vilayet of Aleppo of the Ottoman Empire until the First World War when it was given to Turkey and had a mixed population of Circassians, Turkomans and Arabs...

, a town in the Gaziantep

Gaziantep Province

Gaziantep Province is a province in south-central Turkey. Its capital is the city of Gaziantep which had a population of 853,513 as of 2000. Its neighbours are Adıyaman at north, Şanlıurfa at east, Syria and Kilis at south, Hatay at southwest, Osmaniye at west and Kahramanmaraş at northwest.An...

 district of Turkey

Turkey

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, in 1963. She moved to Bursa in her early childhood along with her family. She completed her secondary and high school education in Bursa. She was elected Miss Turkey in 1981 and represented Turkey at the Miss World

Miss World

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 beauty pageant in the same year. Having worked as a model for a short while, she started her acting career with the TV series "Küçük Ağa" in 1983.

Filmography

• Küçük Ağa (1983) TV Series
• Çalıkuşu (1986) TV Series
• Yeniden Doğmak (1987) TV Series
• Iki kiz kardes (1992) TV Series
• Yüzleşme (1996) (TV)
• Bir Aşkın Bittiği Yer (1996)
• Nice Yıllardan Sonra (1997) TV Series
• Hüznün Yüzü (1997) (TV)
• Mühürlü Güller (2003) TV Series
• Beni Bekledinse (2004) (TV)
• Masum Değiliz (2005) TV Series