13 things about Miss International Finland 2025 Vera Eloranta

Vera Arianna Eloranta competed in the 12th edition of Miss Tampere. She represented Finland in the 51st edition of Miss Intercontinental and the 63rd edition of Miss International.

BIOGRAPHY

Eloranta is a Finnish-Indian-Malaysian actor, dancer, singer, model and beauty queen based in Tampere, Finland. She was born in Hämeenlinna, Finland to her Finnish father Antti Eloranta and her Indian-Malaysian mother Vallery Michael Eloranta.

Originally from Hämeenlinna, Antti worked at UPM Raflatac in the United States. As an exchange student, he met Vallery at a university in Malaysia where she was studying.

Vallery was the first in her family to attend university. Her great-grandmother was a child bride and her grandmother was married off at 16 and both never received education.

Vera is an alumna of Tampereen Yhteiskoulun Lukio in Tampere and a former resident of Asheville, North Carolina, USA. She is three years older than her sister Ava Eloranta, who was diagnosed with autism when she was young.

On April 14, 2025, Vera turned 22. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. From 2004 to 2008, she and her parents lived in Malaysia.
2. From 2008 to 2014, she and her parents lived in the U.S.
3. In 2008, her dance teacher secretly took her to watch rehearsals of the Moscow Ballet, which was on a Christmas tour to the U.S.
4. In 2014, she and her parents moved back to Finland.
5. In 2018, she visited Austria and Germany.
6. In 2019, she visited Belgium and England, United Kingdom.
7. In 2022, she visited Singapore and the Netherlands
8. In 2023, she visited Greece, Sweden and Egypt.
9. She was Miss Tampere 2023 first runner-up.
10. She is Miss Intercontinental Finland 2023 and was a Miss Intercontinental 2023 finalist.
11. In 2024, she and Lorre Michell played “Love Island” contestants in a commercial for MTV Katsomo in Finland and she founded Steps of Grace, a nonprofit charity that provides free dance lessons and performance choreography to people with disabilities.
12. In 2025, she visited Japan.
13. She won Miss International Finland 2025 and was a Miss International 2025 candidate.

TIMELINE

Vera has been dancing ballet since she was a little girl. She speaks English and Finish.

2010s

• In October 2017, she visited New York City, New York, USA.
• In July 2018, she traveled to Salzburg, Austria and Munich, Germany.
• In February 2019, she traveled to Leuven, Belgium.
• In July 2019, she traveled to London, England.

2020s

• In July 2022, she visited Penang, Malaysia and Singapore.
• In August 2022, she traveled to the Netherlands.
• In April 2023, she traveled to Crete, Greece.
• On May 10, 2023, she watched Beyonce Knowles‘ Renaissance World Tour concert at the Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden.
• In July 2023, she graduated from Tampereen Yhteiskoulun Lukio in Tampere.
• On August 12, 2023, she competed against nine other Miss Tampere 2023 finalists at Ravintola Periscope in Tampere. She was runner-up to Wilma Simi and was crowned Miss Intercontinental Finland 2023.
• On December 15, 2023, she represented Finland at Miss Intercontinental 2023 and competed against 63 other candidates at the Sunrise Remal Resort in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt. She finished in the Top 22.
• On September 14, 2024, she attended Miss Suomi 2024 at the Aino Arena in Järvenpää, Uusimaa, Finland. 
• On August 22, 2025, she competed against nine other Miss International Finland 2025 finalists at Pörssitalo Helsinki in Helsinki, Finland and won the title.
• On November 27, 2025, she represented Finland at Miss International 2025 and competed against 79 other candidates at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. She was unplaced.