Full Name: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Birthday: November 1, 1973. Sun sign: Scorpio Birth place: Mangalore Nationality: Indian Height: 5` 7" Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (born Aishwarya Rai) is an Indian actress and former Miss World. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model and gained fame after winning the Miss World title in 1994. Her father Krishnaraj Rai was a marine engineer and her mother Vrinda Rai is a writer. She has an elder brother Aditya Rai who is during the mercantile navy. He too happens to co-produce of film Dil Ka Rishta in 2003, which starred Aishwarya. The family stirred to Mumbai wherever she deliberate at the Arya Vidya Mandir and afterward enthused to Ruparel College. She was hopeful to study architecture except to do not get off at the same time, as her career in the glamour industry took rotten. At the same time as following her studies in architecture, Rai initiated modelling on the side. In the 1994 Miss India contest, she won the second place at the back Sushmita Sen, and be crowned Miss India World. She went on to win the Miss World title the similar year, where she too won the Miss Photogenic award. She discarded her academic schooling subsequent to winning the parade and exhausted one year swaying as Miss World in London. Rai after that started operational as a professional model and afterward moved on to her present profession as an actress. Rapidly, she pledged toward donate her eyes behind her death. She went on just before turn into the product ambassador for brands are fond of Coco Cola, Pepsi and L'Oreal. She struck a pretense for a lot of international magazines in the vein of TIME and was as well voted one of the majority gorgeous and significant women by numerous polls. She is the initial Indian actor to be ingredient of the adjudicators at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. She has appeared in The Oprah Winfrey Show, Late Show by David Letterman and 60 Minutes. She was also the first Indian actress to be pretending in wax at Madame Tussaud's Museum during London. Rai made her acting first appearance in Mani Ratnam's Tamil film, Iruvar (1997) with Mohanlal, The contentious film was a vital achievement and won a lot of awards with Best Film award at the Belgrade International Film Festival, two National Film Awards, and two Filmfare Awards South. She appeared in twin roles, conflicting experienced actor Mohanlal, amid one of her roles life form a cinematic portrayal of biased chief and ex-actress J. Jayalalithaa. Rai completed her Bollywood first appearance in the film, Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya opposite Bobby Deol, which too released that year; the film did not do well at the box office, and was too panned by critics. But, her third project, S. Shankar's Tamil film, Jeans (1998) was a profitable triumph, earning her the Filmfare Best Actress Award South. The film was moreover well-known intended for the song "Poovukkul", written by Vairamuthu, dubbing Rai as the "eighth wonder of the world", by the music video comparing her to seven extra famous world monuments. She won the Filmfare Best Actress award intended for her subsequently Tamil film Jeans, which was too an entry to the Oscars. In 1999, she gained appreciation in Bollywood with punches in the vein of Taal and Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, in which she played opposed Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan, her position as Nandini. In that film she got the Filmfare Best Actress award. And other, Subhash Ghai's Taal, in which she played the role of a youthful village girl Mansi, who becomes a huge Pop star behind life form mar by her lover played through Akshay Khanna, the film was normal actor in India however a gigantic victory with the international audience, specially in the United States, anywhere it became the first Indian film to get to the top 20 on Variety's box office listing. Her Tamil film Kandukondain Kandukondain in 2000 motto a excellent crowd. She took on the role of Shirley, Shah Rukh Khan's sister in Josh and after that played his be in love with notice in Mohabbatein that won her a proposal for the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress award. And then, Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai, was she played Preeti Virat, a rape sufferer and was well thought-out for the Filmfare Best Actress award. Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas (2002), in which she played Paro by Shah Rukh Khan and Madhuri Dixit, was a second smash hit. It also received a individual showing at the Cannes Film Festival. She won the Filmfare Best Actress award. In 2003, she acted the part of Binodini in a Bengali film Choker Bali which was based on a narrative by Rabindranath Tagore. The film was chosen for the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival. The year 2004 saw Ash's first appearance in English film, Gurinder Chaddha's Bride & Prejudice, an altered copy of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice. Her presentation as Neerja in Rituparno Ghosh's Raincoat was praised. Her second English film in 2005, The Mistress of Spices with Dylan McDermott of The Practice fame, followed this. Her dance series Kajra Re from Bunty Aur Babli became one of the majority popular tunes of the year. She had two films exposed in 2006. Umrao Jaan by Abhishek Bacchan failed to do fine at the same time, as Dhoom 2 where she played Sunehri and communal a 'controversial' liplock by Hrithik Roshan was a gigantic punch. She was temporarily concerned with actors Salman Khan and Vivek Oberoi prior to marrying actor Abhishek Bacchan, son of the iconic Amitabh Bacchan and Jaya Bacchan. They were wedded in 2007. At the same year, she was played Sujata conflicting Abhishek Bacchan in Guru, based on the businessman Dhirubhai Ambani so as to be incredibly unbeaten. Motivated which was based on a genuine affair of home aggression, won grave praise. The other English film The Last Legion did not perform thus well. Jodhaa Akbar, released in 2008, in which she acted the part of Jodhaa Bai with Hrithik Roshan was average while the sequel to Sarkar, Ram Gopal Varma's Sarkar Raj in which she plays a CEO at the side of Amitabh Bacchan and Abhishek Bacchan, is said to be one of her most excellent performances dig date. Aishwarya Rai, the Indian beauty icon on the world stage, was born to Krishnaraj (marine engineer) and Vrida Rai (writer) of Bunt community in Mangalore. Her only brother is an engineer in the merchant navy. Soon after her birth, her family moved to Mumbai. She completed her high school from Arya Viya Mandir in Santa Cruz. Then she completed her "HSC" studies from Ruparel College in Matunga. The bright student was dreaming of a career in architecture when her stint with modeling made her the First runner up in the Miss India contest in 1994. She won the Miss World contest along with Sushmita Sen (Miss India 1994) becoming Miss Universe, and made the world stop and take notice. Since then, she has carved a coveted place for herself in Bollywood and Hollywood, too. She married Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan, son of Amitabh Bachchan, on April 20th, 2007.