Bachchan(Birthname: Aishwarya Rai; born November 1,
1973) is an internationally renowned Indian actress.
Before starting her acting career, she worked as a
model, and gained fame after winning the Miss World
contest in 1994.
Often acclaimed as the most beautiful woman in the
world, Rai made her movie debut in Mani Ratnam's Tamil
film, Iruvar (1997). She had her first commercial
success in the Tamil movie Jeans (1998), and came to
the attention of Bollywood in the Hindi movie, Hum Dil
De Chuke Sanam (1999), directed by Sanjay Leela
Bhansali. Her performance in the film won her the
Filmfare Best Actress Award, and she successfully
performed in Bhansali's next project, Devdas (2002),
for which she won her second Best Actress Award at the
Filmfare. Since then, she has acted in over forty
movies in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and English, including
the international productions, Bride & Prejudice
(2003), Mistress of Spices (2006) and The Last Legion
(2007) in English.
Aishwarya Rai was born in Mangalore, as the daughter
of Krishnaraj Rai, a marine biologist, and Vrinda Rai,
a writer. Her family belongs to the Bunt community of
Mangalore. She has one elder brother, Aditya Rai, who
is an engineer in the merchant navy and also
co-produced one of Rai's movies, Dil Ka Rishta (2003).
After she was born, her parents moved to Mumbai where
she attended the Arya Vidya Mandir high school in
Santa Cruz. Rai then entered Jai Hind College at
Churchgate for one year, and then moved to Ruparel
College in Matunga to finish her "HSC" studies. She
did well in school and planned to become an architect.
She can communicate in several languages, including
Tulu, Hindi, English, Marathi and Tamil .While
pursuing her studies in architecture, Rai began
modeling on the side. In the 1994 Miss India contest,
she won the second place (behind Sushmita Sen), and
went on to win the Miss World title the same year,
where she also won the Miss Photogenic award. She
abandoned her studies after winning the pageant and
spent one year reigning as Miss World in London. Rai
then started working as a professional model and then
moved on to her current profession as an actress.
Rai has previously dated Bollywood actors Salman Khan
and Vivek Oberoi. She is now married to Indian actor
Abhishek Bachchan. The wedding took place on April 20,
2007.
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