Zeynep Tokuş 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...

 actress and former beauty pageant winner. Recently, she won the title of the TV show Turkish version of Dancing on Ice.

Biography

Tokuş was educated in graphic design

Graphic design

Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...

 at the Bilkent University

Bilkent University

İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, commonly referred to as Bilkent University or Bilkent, is the first private, nonprofit university in Turkey with the fundamental aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research...

 in Ankara.

In 1998, she became the winner of the beauty contest of the newspaper Star, and received thereupon a role in the movie Deli Yürek.

In 2001, Tokuş was awarded the "Best Actress" for her role in the movie Yazgı.

On March 11, 2007, she won the title and a prize of TRY 100,000 in the Show TV

Show TV

SHOW TV is a nation-wide television channel in Turkey owned by Çukurova Holding. The channel was established by the Turkish businessmen Erol Aksoy and Haldun Simavi on March 1, 1992. During the last years, Show TV extended its range of viewers by adding more channels like Show Plus, Show Max and...

 show Buzda Dans (Dancing on Ice), after competing ten weeks. Her partner was the American figure skater Robert Beauchamp, a former Holiday On Ice

Holiday on Ice

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performer.

She is married to her second husband Alp Nuhoğlu, a gynaecologist

Gynaecology

Gynaecology or gynecology is the medical practice dealing with the health of the female reproductive system . Literally, outside medicine, it means "the science of women"...

. Zeynep Tokuş gave birth to her son Alp on December 5, 2001 in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

.

Filmography

Movies:

• Vizontele – as Asiye (2000)
• Yazgı (2001)
• Vizontele Tuuba – as Asiye (2004)

TV mini series:

• Deli Yürek - as Zeynep (1999)
• Kerem – as Sevil (1999)
• Çocuklar Duymasın – as Meltem (2002)
• Esir Şehrin İnsanları – as Nedime (2003)
• Bedel (2003)
• Hırçın Menekşe – as Deniz (2003)
• Çocuklar Ne Olacak (2004)

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