By winning the crown, she led the way for her successors. After her one year tenure, she refused modeling and films and instead concentrated on medical studies. She lives in Dublin, Ireland with her husband David Powell, and has two children and five grandchildren.
Aishwarya Rai (born November 1, 1973) is an Indian actress. Prior to her career in film, she worked as a model and gained fame for winning the Miss World contest in 1994.
She made her film debut in Mani Ratnam's Tamil film Iruvar (1997), and had her first critical and commercial success with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), with whom she repeated this success with Devdas (2002). Since then, she has acted in nearly forty Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and English films.
Often touted as the most beautiful woman in the world, she is one of the most popular actresses of India and has worked on many international projects, such as Bride & Prejudice (2003) and The Last Legion (2007). Rai is currently married to Indian actor Abhishek Bachchan and is the daughter-in-law of Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan
Diana Hayden (born 1973) is a model from Hyderabad, India.
She first came to attention when she represented India at the 1997 Miss World pageant. She became a known face when at 24 she won the crown. She became the third Indian woman to win the Miss World pageant. Like the second Indian winner of the crown, Aishwarya Rai, she followed up her win by launching an acting career in the Indian film industry and internationally. She made her debut with a guest appearance but established herself with the film, Ab Bas!. She's 5.8'.
An Anglo-Indian, she comes from parents who are separated, but her family was still very close-knit. As a teenager, she was a tomboy, tall and gangly.
Diana also hosts a popular show on the History channel called "Biography".
Yukta Mookhey (born 7 October 1978) is an Indian model and actress. A native of Mulund, Mumbai, she was crowned Miss World in December 1999 at the Olympia theatre in London.
Her family is from northern India. She lived and studied her first seven years in the Gulf, because her father's work took the family there. The family migrated back to Bombay in June 1986. Mookhey's mother Aruna runs a grooming workshop, Swiss Chalet, at Santa Cruz here while her father Inderlal was the managing director of Ragz Clothing Company. He is now dealing in real estate business and trades in stock market. Yukta was studying zoology at Kelkar college, prior to winning the crown. She has studied classical music since eleven years of age. Currently, she is preparing to have her first live concert as a classical vocal artist. She used to like prawns in garlic sauce before she turned vegetarian by choice at a young age of ten. Adores Brad Pitt and admires Jane Austen. Yukta is also very spiritual since she was fourteen. In her free time, she indulges in her passion to study cinema and reads books based on facts and religion.
Mookhey was chosen for the title from among 94 hopefuls in a pageant which saw Miss Venezuela Martina Thorogood and Miss South Africa Sonia Raciti win the second and third places respectively. During the question round, Mookhey told the judges that Thai food was her favourite and that she would love to go to France. Though having toured the world in the last few years, she now feels there is so much beauty within India - she is a strong patriot and advocates that the government should develop infrastructure and promote tourism. She particularly finds north-east and south of India unexploited natural territories.
Now, she acts in Hindi movies. Her only release so far is a movie called Pyaasa. For a while, she opted to write books but then came back to acting. She still resides in Mumbai.
Priyanka Chopra born on July 18, 1982, is a two-time Filmfare Award-winning Indian actress who works in Bollywood movies.
After winning the title of Miss India World and later becoming Miss World 2000, Priyanka made her acting debut with Anil Sharma's The Hero: Love Story of a Spy (2003) and had her first commercial success with her second release, Andaaz from the same year, for which she won a Filmfare Best Female Debut Award. She won critical acclaim for her negative role in Abbas-Mustan's Aitraaz (2004) and became the second woman to win the Filmfare Best Villain Award for her performance in the film. Chopra went on to deliver commercial success with films like Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (2004), Krrish (2006), her biggest commercial success so far, and Don - The Chase Begins Again (2006). Since then, she has established herself as one of the most successful and popular actresses of the industry.
